Quote Originally Posted by gssixgun View Post
Not the heat I was asking about, the problem sometimes with buffing the blade is that it can leave the very edge quite ragged if you touch it...
I know this sounds counter intuitive to getting the razor sharp, but if you look at the very edge under magnification I am going to guess that it has little tiny teeth...
To start smooth after buffing the blade I just set the edge straight down on a Arkansas stone or even just glass, and with no pressure draw the edge across a few times... You can test for these teeth now without wrecking the edge you have with a Kleenex... Hold the tissue out with one hand and very gently draw the edge across it... A nice clean draw and cut, yer fine, and have just some honing problems to adjust. If the cut is catchy then you need to start from square one...

When you do a lot of buffing you learn to stay away from the very edge to avoid this and worse problems...
Thanks for your advice, I will do the tissue test to see results. But what I do is I buff first the razor and once it's buffed, I hone it from Naniwa 2K and end up with the Coticule to precisely avoid this kind of problems and having to hone again from square one.

@Zib:

My coticule I guess cuts quite fast, as I get the metal residue on the hone quite faster than I would expect on a finisher stone. I don't have another finisher, hence I cannot compare, but from my honing experience (which isn't much) I never had any problems shaving after the coticule and some leather strops.

Thanks for your input as well, Very constructive!