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Don't we all. Eventually it gets back to the old saying, though..

...how much is enough?

....just a little bit more.

Mid summer and the couple of months after Christmas. when I'm selling stuff to buy more stuff, things usually move the slowest then.

I think that now that people are getting tax refunds,...

You guys are making me feel a little better about potentially selling my old rock coticule in the future. I don't have much reason to keep it other than that it was a gift, but it was not given with...

I've had a couple of no 1s. They can be all over the place, but all of them cut quickly if you lap the surface, and they make a nice razor bevel setter. If they are left to settle in, they do a good...

I came to this (shaving) after several years of hand tool woodworking and still do a lot of hand tool woodworking...a lot.

I started on synthetics and pretty much use just oilstones now, but from...

That's a fair assessment. I'll sharpen anything I can by hand, from razors, to scissors, to hatchets, (put a whole list of woodworking tools here), lawn mower blades.

There are some stones that...

I'd say that's fair. With any pressure most are much coarser, though.

One of the things I did was try an early coti with woodworking tools, where you do want the abrasive to do most of its work...

Neither do I (have any interest at all in what anyone buys). I certainly have spenty my share, though, and sold most of what I didn't keep for a loss - in some cases didn't sell at all if I felt the...

Yeah, that's not realistic. Every hone has to be honed with the way it likes. I'll mention the washita again, the ones that have strop top boxes and don't seem that fine. They'll make an excellent...

I was thinking it's more like a volkswagen beetle or a citroen 2cv!!

I don't get any drama from arks, but I'm used to arks. I go back to the jnat koppa sized stones that a dealer says are good for...

Like i said, if less keen is "better", then sure. Perfect.

I agree on the 5x2.5 coti. It's a lovely size, especially in a natural combo hone.

I'm sitting here poo-pooing the cotis, but there's no guarantee I won't buy another one in the future if I see a...

The stones are different shapes, so it's really hard to make the comparison. The one thing they both have in common is that they can be unstable over their lifetimes.

The idea that jnats are...

Two things:
* If you're going to use "one stone" to maintain a razor, every single finisher out there can do it. There's nothing special about cotis in that respect. Even the finest hardest jnat can...

The expensive japanese finishers are another thing that's a bugaboo for me. I can't see any difference in sharpness vs. any of the run of the mill very fine stones that any of the reputable dealers...

The "one stone hone" thing is ridiculous to begin with. Let's examine which stones can't maintain a razor that already has its bevel set and isn't dropped or dragged perpendicularly across a stone.....

There's a vast difference between being able to finish a razor and being able to finish it as well as an escher or jnat.

Coticules work better if you let the linen establish and condition the...

I have one of the labeled "deep rock - speckled" coticules, and it is a *beautiful* stone. A friend gave it to me in exchange for selling the rest of his stones.

The unfortunate truth about it...