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And less money :roflmao

Thanks Nick, slime is the stuff that really gets 'em sharp ! :w

More on lather...... In the 1980s barbers I knew called the coticule a 'soap stone.' They would use the thin lather from their "Lather King" machines as a vehicle for honing. I've done the same back...

We Escher users don't use slurry. We create slime with a rubber. (according to the label) :D

Edit; You're right ! The label does say lather, I don't recall where I read slime instead but I know...

+1, Moler's manual, circa 1920s, says that the BBW is only for reinforcement and not for honing. Commonly held belief until fairly recently but it ain't so. The 1961 manual on stropping/honing says...

Glen, that coticule looks a lot like my 8x3 combo that came from Ardennes by way of Howard at the perfect edge a few years ago. It is yellow but has a lot of pink bits in it and is a great stone. Of...

Messing with a number of coticules, using the highest amount of pressure I feel comfortable with in honing a razor, I cannot generate slurry using a Wostenholm pipe razor with water only. As far as...

According to my understanding of the dulicot method it was an attempt to prove that if all a person had was one coticule (with a slurry stone) they could use that one stone to set their bevel,...

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Now that is an interesting idea. Very abrasive material from what I've read. I'd be interested in one of those too just for the heck of it. :)

Myself I like to keep an open mind on honing. IOW, it ain't carved in stone, if you'll pardon the pun. There are those who like to use slurry and those who do not. With synthetics some use pyramids...