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Ok so I love the wedges, but I do have my Grandfathers hollows so I tried one tonight. Now I do like this hollow only it never liked me. It is a CaseXX around 1925 or so. It was always really sharp...

I love my coticules, but some are better than others. I haven't had one I did not like. I have only 4 all are good some are great. What I learned from this is that coticules are great for turning old...

W&B old big wedge. Test 2. Yeah thuri after coti strop on leather only my new shave. :)
it is right on the edge of feeling like it will cut the out of me, but smooth.

Ok Thuri wins by a hair.:tameshigiri:
very similar to my best coti, but a bit closer shave. Feel and ease were about the same, but I guess it is just a bit sharper. Maybe a little smoother.

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Doesn't look like it is coming out. Oven at 170 for almost an hour stone got really hot.
It is stuck good. So I just lapped it on a flat coti it lapped quick. I will try it...

Wow these little 1" × 5" seem small. Can you release a genuine thuringian water hone from it's box in the oven on low? Lapping in the box doesn't seem easy.

I tend to just try different methods as I go play with it and have fun till I get the result I want. It seems every stone and blade is a bit different and responds to different things. I usually...

Your a good guy. I don't have any friends who would give me a thuri.

Yeah I have a really nice combo stone where the coti side is very hard and smooth and the BBW side is similar. I have not shaved direclty off the BBW side yet though. I am really liking this stone....

Thanks. This is my point I have 4 vintage coticules. All produce a great edge. I would like to find out if I can improve that by following with a thuri and stroping on leather only. From what I know...

All of my blades are old. Starting in about 1770 till about 1925. More than half are old Sheffield wedge. I only ever learned on a coti and want to see what a thuri can do on top of that if anything....

So I decided if I could find a thuri that didn't cost too much I would try one following a coticule. So I found thuri brand not much info on it out there and almost won it lost by a dollar(someone...

I believe you are correct with the linen. I happen to be looking at a vintage thuri that was boxed and in the instructions it said never strop on linen afterward only on leather.

I got a lot of good info from here and on the net, but in the end it is what you like. Plus you have to compare cost to quality.

Now I don't dislike Escher any different than a coticule. I just...

I know this is just my judgement and subjective. I had been trying to decide if I wanted to get an Escher or not. So I did a cheek to cheek comparision. I had two razors both around 1800 with similar...