Well my coti is on the way so I have to buckle down and get through this whole thread and start absorbing the info. It's good to have a virtual "how to" guide on them available here.
Well my coti is on the way so I have to buckle down and get through this whole thread and start absorbing the info. It's good to have a virtual "how to" guide on them available here.
Gary sent me a razor that he honed on his La Dressante au Bleu and I have to say, this stone leaves a much brisker edge than my La Grosse Blanche I've been using so far.
It has also confirmed that I'm pretty much there in terms of edge keenness. I'm not sure if I'm happy about that or not. Gary's is a tad sharper, and consistent the whole length (when compared to some of mine) but part of me was hoping it'd be WAY sharper and WAY smoother. heh
Thanks for the loaner and confirmation Gary. I will play around with it some, see if I can recreate the same edge with my LDaB, and then refinish on the LGB and see how they compare.
Gary sent me a razor that he honed on his La Dressante au Bleu and I have to say, this stone leaves a much brisker edge than my La Grosse Blanche I've been using so far.
It has also confirmed that I'm pretty much there in terms of edge keenness. I'm not sure if I'm happy about that or not. Gary's is a tad sharper, and consistent the whole length (when compared to some of mine) but part of me was hoping it'd be WAY sharper and WAY smoother. heh
Thanks for the loaner and confirmation Gary. I will play around with it some, see if I can recreate the same edge with my LDaB, and then refinish on the LGB and see how they compare.
Gary sent me a razor that he honed on his La Dressante au Bleu and I have to say, this stone leaves a much brisker edge than my La Grosse Blanche I've been using so far.
It has also confirmed that I'm pretty much there in terms of edge keenness. I'm not sure if I'm happy about that or not. Gary's is a tad sharper, and consistent the whole length (when compared to some of mine) but part of me was hoping it'd be WAY sharper and WAY smoother. heh
Thanks for the loaner and confirmation Gary. I will play around with it some, see if I can recreate the same edge with my LDaB, and then refinish on the LGB and see how they compare.
Are you getting bad shaves off the coti's?
the razor was honed on the La drassante, not the la drassante au blue. I have two the au blue is a combo and the la drassante is not. your quite right the drassante does leave a bisk edge . If you check the vault out you will see bart rates the la drassnate as brisk.
cheers gary
Nope. The shaves are fine, just not as close as I'd like. I wasn't sure if it was due to not quite being there with the sharpness (even tho ATG passes are just fine). Still takes 3+ passes to get even close to DFS...
I suspect my technique is whats in the way now. I think I keep the angle too steep and scrape, sometimes I get it just right and it glides and you can almost feel the bevel face suction onto the skin like on the hone... but those are only moments of clarity. heh
Would the 2 Dressantes be the same, and the only difference is one is a combo?
I have not seen that video. Is it on coticule.be somewhere?
Yeah my ATG passes have gotten much more comfortable as I got better at honing, and also started getting flatter and flatter with it. Now I don't get the red dot pin ***** mustache.
I'm trying to keep the angle low, it just feels more natural to keep it steeper. Perhaps I need to go unicot in order to change the bevel angle to something closer to my natural holding angle?
Found the video, very enlightening. Is that the same razor that you sent me? heh. I am fairly certain I don't do nearly enough skin stretching... it doesn't seem to be that pliable. Perhaps I'm dehydrated.
Found the video, very enlightening. Is that the same razor that you sent me? heh. I am fairly certain I don't do nearly enough skin stretching... it doesn't seem to be that pliable. Perhaps I'm dehydrated.