Coticule for bevel setting?

Hi All,

In the Wiki for hone selection What hone(s) do I need? - Straight Razor Place Wiki it mentions that a coticule with slurry could be used for setting the bevel. I thought that would be too high a grit to achieve that efficiently. Any thoughts?

Reagrds

Danny

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Originally Posted by OLD_SCHOOL

If I remember correctly LXemergency made a honing video, in which he set a bevel with coticule and slurry. As I understand it, the slurry makes the coticule cut faster.

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Coticule honing

Cheers,
Viktor

I guess it really depends on what kind of shape the bevel is in and how patient you are. For my personal razors, the bevel never gets terribly degraded so I do refine the bevel on a coticule. For a razor in bad shape, I have had to resort to a DMT8C to get the bevel right. But, then I am lazy... even the razor in bad shape could be done on a coticule with a slurry and enough passes!

It really depends how blunt the bevel is in the first place and if it is an e bay special, maybe there is a need to remove some nicks. Maybe its just to re flatten a bevel that has been curved over time on strops and paste tone ups.

The aim is to form a perfect V.

Yes a coticule with a heavy slurry will go so far but for the complete re setting of a bevel I would always tend to go back to a 1000 or 2000 grit hone. For most razors, not many ( 5 to 10) return passes are required to reset a bevel to perfection. If you look at the edge through a x10 jewelers loupe you can see when a perfect straight sided V has been formed. Then onto to a Norton 4K then 8K etc., or whatever process you use.

I use the coticule with a heavy slurry after resetting the bevel. First with slurry, then without. This for me is similar to using a norton 4/8k.

If there are bad nicks in the edge, you may need to go to a lower grit, say 800.. Whatever it takes. But always remember you will need to remove the heavy striations from the lower grits before progressing. So the lower you go, the more work you create and the more you are removing metal and the future life of the blade.

Thanks guys

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Originally Posted by English

Yes a coticule with a heavy slurry will go so far but for the complete re setting of a bevel I would always tend to go back to a 1000 or 2000 grit hone.

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I am with English on that. I admit I have never tried to set a bevel on a coticule with slurry and maybe I will with an edge that is in really good form but on the usual ebay specials I tend to get a Shapton pro 1& 2K are more like it.

i think on that video lxemergency said the bevel looked to be in good shape maybe needed a little refining, but otherwise it was an ok bevel, use the lower grits to feform a bevel that is beyond repair, after some time you will get to know what your hones will do and will not do,