Thread: 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. 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.

Dave, just a thought, but if you have to use 2 hones for a touch up then your razor might be beyond the touch up stage and into the light honing stage. What do others think?

Originally Posted by Ryan82

Dave, just a thought, but if you have to use 2 hones for a touch up then your razor might be beyond the touch up stage and into the light honing stage. What do others think?

I see what you're saying....but I don't it's doing that much since I'm using slow hones. 10 laps on a coticule with just water, and slow and hard one at that, isn't really all that much. I could see myself needing 20 laps on that coticule for a touch-up. But I figured doing 10 on that coticule, then 10 more on my y/g stone would be similar. So I see it as just cutting the amount of laps I'd need on one stone in half for 2 stones.

I'll experiment and maybe try 5 and 5, so 10 laps total, and see if that's enough.

I'm fully aware that I don't need to use 2 stones for touch-ups, I just need an excuse to use both!

Yeah, I have a hard coticule too and I'm thinking that laps in the 10-20 range might be pretty ineffective. I'm wondering if using a stone and some paste (chrome) would be considered "cheating" on touch ups too.

If you think two hones look good in the bathroom, how about three? You could do two strokes on the Swaty, 9 on the coticule, and 9 on the thuringian. That way, none of them feel left out. Besides, three hones are sexier than two!

Originally Posted by Utopian

If you think two hones look good in the bathroom, how about three? You could do two strokes on the Swaty, 9 on the coticule, and 9 on the thuringian. That way, none of them feel left out. Besides, three hones are sexier than two!

Too true, the more hones the better right! But I wouldn't want to make any of them jealous...