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I confess I gave no consideration to the razor's character having any impact on its ability to generate a slurry during honing. I'm still surprised that it would make any significant difference.

I only have one "new" coticule, a 3"x10" which I bought from Ardennes. It was one of the many that produced slurry in the first 20 strokes on both sides. The rest of mine are all "vintage." I'm...

I decided to try some of my coticules for a mini experiment with a crappy razor. I did 20 diagonal chisel/japanese strokes (with pressure) on each side with several coticules with water.

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I think two points are being missed here.

First, and I know others disagree, there is no point in dulling a razor before sharpening it. Damaging/dulling your edge just doesn't make any sense to...