Thread: Question About Belgian blue/ Coticule

Originally Posted by Dups

Update:

I thought I was going to get a yellow slurry stone but the seller was kind enough to look through his stock and found a combination slurry stone as well.

I'll let you guys know when I get it.

It's too bad that all my 4 razors are shave ready right now.

I'm curious to see if I could go from Coticule/slurry - BB/slurry/ Coticule with water to get a razor from butter knife sharp to shavre ready.

I might just play around with my Double Arrow. Better make mistakes on that one than on one of my more expensive razors I suppose.

Betcha can. There's some crazy Belgian guy running around here that uses that exact progression.

I've read every word he's written about it, and it is a *very* good way to end up with a smooooooth shaver. This is hard to explain, so bear with me... for any given level of sharpness, the corresponding level of smoothness (to me, at least) is better off of the Belgian naturals than any of the synthetics I've used so far. The only exception to this is my Shapton 30k which gives an amazingly smooth edge. Granted, I haven't used all of the synthetics, but man... it's hard to imagine a more comfortable edge than what you get off of a good finishing coticule.

Now if you combine a Sheffield blade with a Belgian hone.... Well, it's something you have to experience for yourself. Literally a "Velvet Squeegee" experience. I'm going to snap up every Sheffield blade I can find, they are that smooth. And for some reason, they are even more so off of a natural stone than synthetic.

Sorry for wandering off topic but I'm just darn excited about BBW's, coticules, and Sheffield blades.