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06-24-2010, 02:41 AM #1
Proud New Coti Owner!
My "new" vintage Coti came in today! I'm pretty excited. Thanks Dylan! (Holi4pirating)
I couldn't wait to try it out so as soon as I snapped these pictures I set up my honing station and set to it.
I used a razor I'd previously honed with tape, but since I decided not to use tape this time I had a bit of work setting the new bevel. I killed the edge on my beer bottle and started out on the BBW side with a bit of pressure and lots of half strokes until it was shaving arm hair again. Then I started watering out the slurry until it felt as smooth as it seemed it would get. Then I switched to the coti side and did it all over again. I finished with about 100 laps under running water and some serious stropping.
I have to admit, I'm pretty impressed. This seems like one of the sharpest razors I've done yet. I won't have enough whiskers to shave until tomorrow but I'm tempted to try anyways.
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06-24-2010, 03:57 PM #2
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Thanked: 1It's the next day, how was that shave?
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06-25-2010, 03:52 AM #3
Thanks for askin'... The honest answer would be... OK. Back to the coti they go!
The edges were close.. but not quite there yet. I'm definitely on the right track...
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06-25-2010, 05:42 AM #4
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Thanked: 286it takes practice. if i was you i would use just bbw with milky slurry and go to yellow with water only that if you want use both sides . i'd use yellow for bevel work before blue.
other than that i use yellow only and slowly dilute the slurry. you need check out coticule.be and take a look in sharpening acadamey
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06-25-2010, 01:38 PM #5
Thanks Gary! I've been spending tons of time on Coticule.be. Bart's passion for these stones is amazing!
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06-25-2010, 08:20 PM #6
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Thanked: 1It took me months to get used to mine, now the little 4*2 replaced norton 4/8. Just get to know it.
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