Thread: Lynn's Tips #2

Mark, thanks for the tip. Quite a few of us use Norton 4k/8k to quickly remove old corroded steel and establish a new edge on an antique blade. After that, we move onto a finer polishing stone that cuts slowly and/or a pasted paddle strop. As for the Japanese stones, I have 2 of them (4k and 8k) and use them for some of my honing needs. A decent number of us do. However the Belgian coticule is my finisher.

what size is your yellow coticule?

I keep eyeing the 8x3 $175 one but there's no way I'm getting it.

What's the smallest adequte size, and whats a typical size people get?

I use the 6x6.5cm one. Fairly tiny and not easy to work with but it was all I could afford. Gonna try playing with the lithide as well but my next finishing purchase will be a paddle strop from Tony M.

Originally Posted by mkilar

.....I ended up getting an 8k and a 12k.

To make a long story short, the new stones are perfect. They're very soft, and create a sort of 'mud' as you sharpen. This is supposed to be good. Anyway, my edges are near perfection, and this is before I even strop!! For anyone interested I can provide the company's url.

Mark

Hmm, where'd you get those water stones? I have a norton 4k/8k and was thinking about getting a coticule, but I'm scared by the fact that the coticules grit vary vendor to vendor. a waterstone sounds safer.

I'm looking at a 12k range. I might try to get some really messed up ebay straights back in to shape, so I'm looking at something corser than 4k. In fact I'm wondering if it would be wise to get a slow cutting 1-2k instead of fast, so if a waterstone is slower than a norton, maybe a 1-2k waterstone is a good thing.

Did you get the rubbing stone(nagura (sp) stone) too? you rub it on the waterstone to help make that slurry.

For coarse work, you can also use a piece of 1000 grit wet/dry sandpaper on a flat surface (I put it right over Norton 8k and go circular). For fine work a pasted paddle strop would be a better idea as it's cheaper and you can get higher grits than the coticule.

O.k., I hate to show my ignorance, but here goes; what's a honing pyramid? In my case, right now, it's a dunce cap!

rsvp glenel@videotron.ca

Regards,

Glen Eldridge
Pierrefonds, Québec

Originally Posted by glenel

O.k., I hate to show my ignorance, but here goes; what's a honing pyramid? In my case, right now, it's a dunce cap!

I have the same question. An explanation would be totally cool.

Its a honing strategy which includes a repetition of low and high grit in combination. Surely a search on pyramid would give you a few hints and some reading options.

Originally Posted by adjustme69

...If shiney all the way to the cutting part of the edge, you can start with a regular honing pyramid.

Good Luck.

Lynn

Can someone please describe this pyramid (or post a link to past discussions)?

Thanks

Ken

I, too, am trying to learn how to hone my razors and would like to know what a "honing pyramid" is. I used the search function and got 252 hits on honing and pyramid. That's a lot of reading for those of us who are searching for the answer. Could someone narrow it down a bit??
Thanks,
J.