Originally Posted by
Croaker
Very interesting thread. I use the BBW followed by yellow coticule for most of my honing, with good results. Like pjrage, I notice that my razor seems sharper after the blue than after a few laps with the coticule. BUT, I would like to ask pjrage how he strops. My razors will seldom pass the HHT off the coticule, but as soon as I do 40 passes on linen, they do , and with ease. Then, I finish with 50 strokes on the leather. The hairs fall apart and float when I do the HHT after the leather. Have you tried stropping on linen first off the coticule, before going to leather? I get very smooth and pretty close shaves that way.