Kaptain, as a coticule honer who finishes on a Shapton 16K could you tell me about your use of the coticule after the 16K?
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:OTWhat a delicious thread again.
Trying to grasp physical reality when it comes to honing razors, is such futile activity. If it wasn't that much fun, I would have given up a long time ago. A coticule is such a great tool for massaging smoothness into an edge that it's almost supernatural. But when it comes to keenness, I always have the impression that it also massages something away from the crispness of an edge (above the typical 8K edge). I can only speculate that a Shapton 16K edge has enough "overhead" to exchange a little bit of that keenness for coticule induced smoothness. Maybe that would explain the Captains' premium results with that approach?
Bart.