Thread: Finishing Threesome

Hey all,

So I found a great combination of hones to be used together to provide an AWESOME finish on a razor. I've tried this on a couple of razors so far and am very pleased with the results.

For the "finishing threesome" I use:

1) A 8"x2" very hard and slow coticule.
2) A small (about 6 1/4" x 1 1/4" I think) yellow/green escher.
3) My beautiful Nakayama Maruichi, about 7" x 1.5". It's a greenish colour, O_S says it's a kiita but just a rarer colour. I also use a small slurry stone made from the same type of Nakayama, so no cross-contamination.

How I used the "finishing threesome":

1) About 50 laps on my coticule with just water
2) About 50 laps on the escher
3) 50 laps on the Nakayama with a very light slurry
4) 50 laps with a very diluted slurry on the Nakayama, by just adding a bit of water to the stone.
5) 50 laps on the Nakayama with just plain water. I rinsed off the razor and the stone to ensure there was no slurry at all.

The number of laps I used were probably too many, but I doubt these stones would ever overhone a razor so I don't think more would hurt at all. Besides, I like to use them so I don't usually count strokes because I get "lost in the moment". All three of these stones are not fast cutting either, so this would only probably work if you had an already very sharp razor (which I did).

I could probably fully get away with just using the Nakayama for the finish, but I like the idea of using the coticule and escher before just for kicks. Besides, I know there's no way in hell that the razor will not be smooth after going through these 3 finishing stones. (Well I'll keep telling myself that anways... )

Anyways, here's a picture of my sexy finishing threesome.

Dave