Thread: Lynn's circles?

Hi all,

I'm wondering can I turn my coti sideways and do the circles like Lynn does in '09 convetion videos. I'm asking cause he does them on a nani and its a 3" stone and my coti is only 2" and since I'm asking can I also do the same on the other side BBW. If the answer is yes should I use the slurry in the normal way? Any other suggestions or comments about this idea I haven't mentioned would really help. Thanks for the help/support.

It will depend on what you are comfortable with. I like to make bigger circles, so I'd need a wide stone. But if you are comfortable making circles then that is all that matters.

You also may find that you can do circles with your hone in the "normal" orientation, but slide the razor from heal to toe such that the whole blade gets circles on the hone. Maybe more of an advanced technique, as there is much more to worry about while doing this.

With slurry, I've never been able to keep the slurry where I want it and do circles. I either push it off the hone or it builds up in a spot I don't like. I prefer to do back and forth strokes (Japanese style) if I'm working with a slurry and want to do something other than normal X's.

Circles work well when you are trying to set a bevel across the whole edge or you're in early sharpening stages. I use them often with a mix of X strokes, Half moon strokes, etc.

I do the circles on 2 inch stones like my Escher without any problem. I normally will angle the razor to 45 degrees to get most of it on the stone and just do a smaller circle. As mentioned the key is to make sure you are evenly getting the entire edge on the stone during the process. It does work well with a combination of X strokes. When using slurry, depending on where you are at in the honing process you can take a razor in decent shape all the way through the process by using Bart's method of heavy slurry and diluting down to water as you go. This has worked on a variety of hones and with a little fiddling around on the number of circles and X strokes you can get a nice edge.

Have fun,

Lynn

I love the circles for the bevel setting. Kudos to Lynn for the razorcon video. Best thing since sliced bread.

Thanks for all the help gentlemen I will give it a shot soon and report back how it went, I'm sure I'll have more questions and/or be really excited that I got it to work. Oh and one more thing this place ROCKS pun intended

Circles rock

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