Thread: finishing on a coticle

Remove the 8K edge?

I didn't mean to knock an 8k edge, I was always told that you should always have the edge from the last stone you honed on and if you don't, you haven't honed properly.

I should have said 'improve' the 8k edge and the OP mentions finishing on the coticule.

regards Alex

Originally Posted by justalex

I didn't mean to knock an 8k edge, I was always told that you should always have the edge from the last stone you honed on and if you don't, you haven't honed properly.

I should have said 'improve' the 8k edge and the OP mentions finishing on the coticule.

regards Alex

The 8k edge understands. The 8k edge forgives you. The 8k edge wants you back

-----Michael

I just did around 40 rolling x-strokes on the coticule with plain water. Edge polish looks great, and the razor seems finer than yesterday. Will shave with it in the AM. I'm pretty excited.

Michael

I very rarely use slurry, certainly not for finishing purposes at least. As with all natural stones YMMV, but my coticule is fairly hard so 20-30 laps will do very little. Using water only I usually test after 50 laps, and it's not uncommon to go up to 100. Results are great. I guess sometimes more is more lol....