Thread: Norton 8k slurry?

I recently took to my norton 4/8 again, in an attempt to at least get a shaveable edge from two blades. After 10 minutes of drudgery, I began thinking about the yellow coticule method of forming a heavy slurry and slowly diluting it.

I abruptly began forming a rather thick concoction of mustard on my 8k, and took the edge to it. 5 laps later, it was turning gray. Had I struck gold? I diluted a bit, continued, diluted, continued, and so on until I was honing on water again. Failed the HHT, but I still knew to try the actual shave test. Took my recently purchased Frank Revitt smiling french-point Sheffield out and drew up another slurry. Same pattern, started to turn gray rather quickly, and I diluted the through the entire process until I was honing on water. Bevel perfect (up to 30x magnification, that is), and shaving arm hair considerably well.

Enthused, I used both razors the next day on a test shave and got quite a comfortable shave. Not quite up to par with my Dovo or Boker, but those were finished on a PHIG using nothing more than the multiplicative values of Patience.

Wondering if anyone else had tried creating a heavy slurry on the Norton 8k and succeeded in any way?

I don't use a heavy slurry (because I'm not partial to dilution methods), but I use a light coticule slurry on my Norton 4k and 8k. I did my preliminary writeup here:
http://straightrazorpalace.com/honin...ogression.html

Know of any coticule slurry stones available?

I would start with your favorite vendor and work through from there.

I don't really see the point of a slurry at the 8k Norton level. This is primarily a polishing level and in general 8 to 10 strokes, sometimes up to 15, are sufficient, so I don't see any need to make it more aggressive. In fact it might be counterproductive.

Thanks for the advice, Dylan!

Originally Posted by Utopian

I don't really see the point of a slurry at the 8k Norton level. This is primarily a polishing level and in general 8 to 10 strokes, sometimes up to 15, are sufficient, so I don't see any need to make it more aggressive. In fact it might be counterproductive.

It stems mainly from my current lack of stones. I tried to raise a slurry on the 4k side, but its a very hard surface and wouldn't budge.

Originally Posted by DerekC

Wondering if anyone else had tried creating a heavy slurry on the Norton 8k and succeeded in any way?

If you look at the One stone honing thread that Lynn and I did you will find mention of it, in fact if you were to go way way way back in time to the Original Coticule threads you will find a post that says "Using only one stone with a slurry to hone is by no means new or unique to a Coticule, it has been done with a Norton 8k with no problems" IIRC some guy named Glen posted it

They are several different ways to using slurries in fact there is a thread named "the Art of Slurry" that has quite a bit of info in there you might want to read

If you watch the Norton 4/8 vid I have up on my Youtube channel you will see slurry use on the 4k and the 8k...it is just another arrow in the quiver

Originally Posted by gssixgun

If you look at the One stone honing thread that Lynn and I did you will find mention of it, in fact if you were to go way way way back in time to the Original Coticule threads you will find a post that says "Using only one stone with a slurry to hone is by no means new or unique to a Coticule, it has been done with a Norton 8k with no problems" IIRC some guy named Glen posted it

They are several different ways to using slurries in fact there is a thread named "the Art of Slurry" that has quite a bit of info in there you might want to read

If you watch the Norton 4/8 vid I have up on my Youtube channel you will see slurry use on the 4k and the 8k...it is just another arrow in the quiver

You use a synthetic nagura specifically for the Nortons, right? I thought I saw that on one of your vids and I thought you mentioned it could be found relatively locally. Where'd you score yours from?

Do a Google shopping search for "Norton Prep Stone" and take your pick.