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Back in the old coticule.be days it was suggested to only use slurry as a restoration tool ...nothing else.

A lot of methods work on these hones but you gotta find which one on which hone.

I asked him to try this:

Create a slurry on the coticule
Honing on it
Every once and a while keep the slurry wet, but not diluted.
When you feel the slurry stop cutting, dip your slurry stone...

I'm glad I could help...natural stones are fun!

Great information Gary. I will try this tonight on some of my coticules and test shave. I don't have a Synthetic 3K stone, only a natural stone that leaves a 3K (ISH) feeling edge. So I may have to...

That'd be great. A lot of us struggle with these Belgian stones, that'd be a wonderful help to the new coticule users.

I find circles leaves a harsh scratch pattern.

Hey Gary
It's been years since you made a video on coticules
Just saying!

The slurry also dulls after a while. You can see the garnets change shape. This is why I refresh the slurry when I work it on the old slurry

I just sent you a pm on some ideas and tips for coticules.

Yes this is correct
There are photos of the garnets broken and rigid after a diamond plate slurry. Hank bos's article on coticules also discusses this.

Coticules are my favorite hones EVER. I love how they look perform, smell...cut..etc. But they are NOT magical hones that can set a bevel and polish a 16K edge on a razor at the same time for EVERY...

How are you creating the initial bevel? A 1000k hone or the coticule?

Unfortunately coticules all vary and when I buy one I ask Maurice directly for one that is good for razors. I ask for fast and fine and he hand selects. If you buy from a third party basically you...