Thread: Re-setting bevel with a coticule?

IME green tint coticules are slow with water only and good polishers. I have a couple and they work well to add keenness with slurry and then finish with water only but they ain't efficient for setting a bevel. Coticules with a lot of pink in them are the best I've found for fast cutting. I have the one shown below and it is real good for setting bevels with heavy slurry. So it depends on the coticule. Most of the time I use a synthetic in the 1k range for bevel setting.

Look at it this way, coticules are rare, finite in quantity, and expensive. Any way you do it, the coticule is better on the finishing end rather than the bevel setting end of the honing spectrum. 1k hones are relatively cheap and do the job faster. If you intend to set more than a few bevels, the 1k is a much better option.

Originally Posted by Utopian

Look at it this way, coticules are rare, finite in quantity, and expensive. Any way you do it, the coticule is better on the finishing end rather than the bevel setting end of the honing spectrum. 1k hones are relatively cheap and do the job faster. If you intend to set more than a few bevels, the 1k is a much better option.

Great advice Ron. I agree.

A little bit off topic but here it goes:

In the video they tape the spine AFTER setting the bevel. I've always thought that setting the bevel meant removing a lot of metal, and to avoid thinning the spine you'd use the tape. Can some one enlighten me on this?

That is bart's Unicot method which you can see on Coticule.be, his web forum for coticules.