Thread: Touch-Ups With A Yellow Coticule

Yesterday I had a very successful honing session (well, touch-up really) with my yellow coticule. This is more or less a follow up to JimR's thread, "Touching Up" Guidelines? . My main workhorse DD had been through a couple sessions on my paddle strop and worked great for a while, but it was time for a true touch-up. I was taking a chance because this is my only truly shave ready edge. I busted out the coti, which I know is a bit on the hard side, great for finishing. Taped spine (one layer), water only I did 10 laps. TPT responded immediately, but not quite enough. In the end I did roughly 50 laps and called it quits. I followed up with 10 laps of chrome on the paddle and what an improvement. A BBS very comfortable shave, no irritation whatsoever, so I'm pretty happy with that.

That being said I did have one observation. I was test shaving on my arm hair, and it was shaving really well. Last night (hours after my honing session) I noticed my arm was slightly red in spots with a couple small 3/8'' long cuts (good thing nobody accused me of being a "cutter" ). Did I create some burrs that roughed up my arm? I think I'm glad I used the chrome ox last to smooth out the edge because my face definitely did not suffer as a result.

I'd dout it very much i shave my arm and i noticed a couple dry red patches once don't forget your arm is not used to be shaved and once shaved mine iritates me if it rubes against my shirt.after stroping this would remove burr you probably tested before you stroped don't forget.