Thread: First time using a coticule

I'm thinking thats a negitave on the taping. Lynn honed it. You could see hone marks on the spine when I got it.

But I'll check it out a little closer.

You definitely need a stone or something to make slurry. I just learned something though. I have a soft stone so I would imagine my slurry is coming from my slurry stone and not the coticule. I think I will need to get a hard slurry stone now.I am a newbie too though so what do I know. I am getting my razor shaveable with my coticule.

You need to keep a very delicate touch though. Just barely skim the blade on the stone.

If you use your coticule as a finishing stone, then just water will work perfectly fine, and cut around the 12k mark. If you use a slurry on your coticule, depending on the individual stone, that the grit goes to around 6k-8k and is really no longer a finishing stone, but a pre-finishing stone.

Best of luck, and keep at it...that's the only way we all learn.

Mark