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Well I for sure like not having to soak the hone in water first. Some folks find the hone or hones that work for them and sharpen and touch up as needed and that is fine. For others like myself...

I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong but my take is that hard, soft or medium the coticule can be used for honing razors. The garnets are in a matrix of sedimentary clay that has hardened...

Years ago a barber told me that if you could scratch the coticule with your fingernail it would be a better hone then if you couldn't. Rob mentioned scratching a soft coticule with the fingernail in...

Sure, any stone will raise a slurry if rubbed with another stone or a diamond plate. I like to use my kosher stone with water only as a finisher. Yours may be the same, harder or softer. Unlike...

I am also under the impression that the kosher grading has to do with purity of color. The one kosher coticule I got from Ardennes is a finisher and harder then my other three. Good for that though.