Touch-up dilema....solved!
Hey all,
So I was having trouble deciding which hone to keep in the bathroom for easy touch-ups. As far as finishing hones I have: a 3 line swaty, a hard coticule, and a yellow green celebrated water hone (thuringian). I like all my hones, but am admittedly partial to natural stone, so the touch-up hone was between the coticule and the y/g thuringian.
Firstly I wanted just the yellow/green because it's my finest hone (in terms of grit). I love my coticule too, but think the edge off the coticule wouldn't be QUITE as fine as off the yellow/green.
Solution: keep BOTH in the bathroom! I just pulled out a razor that I haven't used in a bit, gave it 10 laps on the coticule with water, then 10 on my yellow/green. Shaved well. :D I plan on doing the same routine for all touch-ups, 10 coticule and 10 yellow/green. They're both slow and really fine, so I think that's a good amount.
So the lesson of the story is: why restrict your touch-up hones to 1 great hone when you can have 2 great hones!
P.S. they both look very sexy sitting side-by-side on the counter beside my razor. :rofl2: