Thread: 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.