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A huge +1.

As a matter of fact, I have asked this directly to Maurice Celis, mine engineer and proprietor of Ardennes Coticule. He said garnet size of the Coticule is within a range of 5 to 15 micron and the...

It surprised me too. Allow me to emphasize again that we're talking only about the use of coticules as a finisher without slurry. But even so, I can clearly see differences in the scratch patterns...

No, we are not. I like to think sometimes about us, straight razor shavers, as athletes: within certain limits, we have good days, better days and super days.:)
We do try to keep all things as...

The details being in the original thread, the conclusions so far are:
1. For finishing with water only, there is very, very little difference between coticules, both in speed as in the resulting...

We have purchased 8 new and identical "Double Arrow" Razors. I have removed the smiles on all 8 of them, because honing a smiling blade is more likely to suffer from slight honing inconsistencies....

That is exactly what my comrade and I have been doing for the past 3 months.
Here's the thread: http://straightrazorpalace.com/advanced-honing-topics/23344-scratch-pattern-pictures.html
It gains...

Glen,
Sorry If I insulted the Shapton Gods with my assumption that synthetic hones leave a harsher edge.
(Luckily I find myself under the protection of Coticule, a most powerful earthly Demon):D...

Here's my story. It 'll flirt with the boundaries of the topic, but I think you might make something out of it.

I own 3 DMT's: the 325 and the 600 models with the embedded hones, the 1200 with a...