Someone with a pot of crox a bbw and a good scope should try this someday on a full hollow and image it.
I hope you peel it before applying the chrox!You could put Chrox on a cucumber and get a reasonable shave off it, but I prefer zucchini.
Peel for mid-range, skin-on for finishing would be my bet.I hope you peel it before applying the chrox! [emoji28]
I've managed to get decent, serviceable edges off of the BBW in the past, but nothing that blew me away. I am not talking about playing in the mud to set the bevel, but more like mild mid-range slurry, finished on water. The stone is painfully slow.. I can only assume that some people used a lot of pressure, as a consequence of becoming extremely bored.Some body used BBW quite a bit. There's a fair amount of vintage Coti's around with heavily dished BBW. Not my first choice. I did read a thread somewhere about picking up some keenness using a BBW. Until I can do it, it remains unproven.
The BBW of the natural coticule combination has a chance to be a fine BBW.It can be done, quite easily actually with the right(super fine) bbw base and a soft and fairly fine bbw slurry stone. I finish razors on bbws regularly and with the right ones(I've only ever seen two) they provide an amazing edge kinds like a cross between a fine coticule and a soft thuringian as fast as edge feel goes. If you've got a light touch you can make coarser ones behave similarly.
Those really old coticules usually have good bbws that are hard and glassy. Those are the best ones. My yellow lake can absolutely finish a razor, and on plain water at that. I've yet to put oil to it, and i like oil.I finish on a Yellowlake slate stone. People say it’s a transition stone BEFORE the finishing stone. That may be- for some. I don’t suck at honing, and the Yellowlake does me just right. However- that stone serves as my touch up stone. I’m actually curious about ILR’s- how they compare. Some day I’ll have a Dan’s surgical black Ark for a finisher- I’m sure BBW’s are great- I’m one of those type I guess, that can’t be bothered to make a slurry.
I have a la grise BBW shaped to a 1.7m curve, and I shaped the BBW on an old vein coticule to a 5m shape, as part of a BBW/coticule progression.Convex stone/strop anyone?
Those really old coticules usually have good bbws that are hard and glassy. Those are the best ones.
For razors they are the best ones. I've got an old one that's huge and it leaves a toothy edge on bbw side. I don't use it for razors at all but it's awesome on knives. Id assume most here are wanting to learn about razors, but I'm down to talk knives all day long. I'm waiting on a chef to drop off some knives in the next couple days and I'm going to try to convince her to let me finish them on that weird new Tam I got. I don't know if I can think of a stone that I've got that would put a better edge for a commercial kitchen knife than that.Really hombre? Sounds like the opposite of what I like in Belgian Blue.
But if that's your bag - try typing 'find local glazier' into Google, and thank me later...
For razors they are the best ones. I've got an old one that's huge and it leaves a toothy edge on bbw side. I don't use it for razors at all but it's awesome on knives. Id assume most here are wanting to learn about razors,
I've got one that feels like glass that rubbing a hard ark on won't pull a slurry. The coticule side is also the hardest coticule I've seen. Both sides feel like the hybrid side of my Les lat. I've got one thats close(ish) but it will slurry with pressure. This is the one that feels like glass.I don’t think I’ve ever seen a hard bbw. Some are faster than others but as far as hardness goes they are all really close to the same from my experience.