Thread: coti smoothness

Originally Posted by PA23-250

My new want-list as a result of this thread:

• 8x3 select-grade coticule (good luck finding one now) or 8x2 I guess would do fine--I just think the 8x3 looks cooler.

• Livi loom strop w/ his brand of crox (the SRD crayon)

• A new TI

Wow, you don't have cheap tastes!

That's always been my problem! Actually, I'll probably end up just getting a cotton weave replacement piece & pasting that, since that's what the loom strops use for pastes anyway.

The livi loom strop realy is worth the money its so easy to use the leather is more like velvet normaly i do loads of laps on cotton then the leather . after finishing on coti i did 15 ch.5 and 25 laps on yellow leather shaved realy well .

I have the naniwas etc but its nice if you can achieve agood edge of coticule alone if not i no ican always drop back to naniwas or nortons and there quik and work . I've honed 5 razors on coti they all shaved as good as any razor should with the finishing the aid of srd paste which i still think is the best i've used it may be because its on some kind of cotton what livi makes for his loom strop

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I call it being a discriminating shaver who likes variety. Once I was in a rare bookstore looking at a set of Burton's Arabian Nights. I told the seller that I was really interested but I wondered if I would ever read all of the volumes.

He said that it was like the ocean. While he might never go there it was really nice to have it nearby in case he ever wanted to. That is one of my rationals that enables having all of these hones. Yes I bought the books.

That's a lovely story, Jim. Umberto Eco has a vast personal library and considers the unread volumes to be the most important.

Originally Posted by Ryan82

They were starting to get a bad rep around here for a while, I don't know why. Does the trick for this shaver though.

In our search for an ever sharper edge we tend to forget the smoothness of the humble and trusted coticule. Another problem is that no 2 coticules have the same cutting qualities, some are less useful for straights. In the olden days coticules were hand selected by the vendors (like Pike etc.). Nowadays they are sold as they come and no one tests them before they get to the user. Maybe Howard Schechter does? But even then there is a large intercoticule variability. Synthetic hones do not have that problem.

I've just brough my self an 8x3 select kosher grade of a chap i hope its a good one

Originally Posted by Kees

In our search for an ever sharper edge we tend to forget the smoothness of the humble and trusted coticule. Another problem is that no 2 coticules have the same cutting qualities, some are less useful for straights. In the olden days coticules were hand selected by the vendors (like Pike etc.). Nowadays they are sold as they come and no one tests them before they get to the user. Maybe Howard Schechter does? But even then there is a large intercoticule variability. Synthetic hones do not have that problem.

Sounds like J-Nats with O-S. Id like to try a coticule one of these days.