Thread: Coticule and what i think

Most of us who have been doing this for any length of time probably started before this site existed and without any mentoring of any kind. We either bought what we thought was a "good" razor off Eboy or bought a high dollar TI or Dovo we thought would be shave ready. Then we found out we had problems. Then we started buying all kinds of vintage hones and pasted strops and sand paper and films and new hones and natural hones and you name it including honing during a full moon and during the solstice and crawled our way from one to another until we figured out which hone worked and which didn't and what techniques we had to learn and which razor seemed to prefer one thing over another.

My point here is everyone wants the ultimate solution, the perfect formula and they want it now and they want it easy. "well son just buy hone x and do x strokes and you will have the ultimate in sharpness before you know it".

There is no easy solution. You need to learn and you need to figure out for yourself which hone or hones give you the result you need given your skills, the condition of your razor and your patience.

We can help you by nudging you in the right direction but ultimately it's up to you. If this thing was as easy as pie we wouldn't need honemeisters and restorers and guys like Glen and Lynn would be working in the tool dept. at their local Home Depot.

So for anyone to make any claims about any hone is just one guys opinion and it might be very valid for him but may be invalid for you. Many opinions about a hone may be more valid or it may not be.

Just things to think about.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

My point here is everyone wants the ultimate solution, the perfect formula and they want it now and they want it easy. "well son just buy hone x and do x strokes and you will have the ultimate in sharpness before you know it".
There is no easy solution. You need to learn and you need to figure out for yourself which hone or hones give you the result you need given your skills, the condition of your razor and your patience.

Thank you, Thank you !!!!!
Huge plus 1 here