Thread: Big coticule

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My own coticule is really hard and burnishes. If yours is equally hard you might need to adjust the honing method to account for it.

When I hone I do it slightly differently to account for that. I build a slurry with a 1K plate. The slurry stones I have don't play nice with my rock.

I'll take a razor to 8K. Then build a light slurry on the coti. Hone until it starts to turn the slurry grey and you can feel the blade getting sticky. I don't thin the slurry at all.

Then I'll clean off the rock and razor and hone again just on water. The rock burnishes in this phase from dull 1K finish. I do this until the blade looses the sticky feeling. When complete the razor feels like it's running on glass and the hone once dried off will be shiny.

The edge comes off the rock polished but failing a HHT at all levels. Feeling sharp for a TNT.

10 laps of crox, 100 on leather. It'll pass a HHT at a 4. The shave however is insanely smooth.

If I have the sort that is glassy and just gets more and more mirrored with use I tend to use it on water only and then go to running water under a tap for even more buffering. Those types tend to give off really sharp edges for cotis.. But I do the heavy lifting with another rock. Sometimes the backing stone with coti slurry if the base stone has enough gas to delete the bevel scratches... Usually I will reach for a quicker but coarser coti though. It will take me awhile to figure out as the feedback seemed so wonky

Tested this with that tongwha 77. A super fine coticule. I went on a different coti for the slurry work and moved to this water only followed by running water. The scratch pattern it left behind was just in a different league altogether and the predecessor is a good stone you can shave comfortably from. A very aggressive hht 5 off the strop root in aboit a half inch from grab point. With my hair that is a zone usually only pure finishers achieve. Forgot to hht it off the rock.

Originally Posted by kcb5150

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If you are referring to copying and pasting a photo, one of the admins wants everything uniform so he disabled that function ........ if I understood him correctly. Liberal democrat so he knows what is best for everyone.