Honestly I find bbw to be such a slow stone its not even worth it. Yellow Coticules do this much faster and better.
Honestly I find bbw to be such a slow stone its not even worth it. Yellow Coticules do this much faster and better.
Keep in mind we also did a study several years ago on coticule.be and the old coticules with bbw GLUED on the back had a ineffective bbw side. The natural combos were better. They used useless bbw to back the glued stones.
I've tried a bunch of BBW. Never found one that was worth using in my experience. The only one that was even decent was a la lorraine, and it's not as good as a decent coticule... so why bother?
Can you sharpen start to finish on BBW? Sure. If you're willing to work hard enough you can sharpen start to finish on a lot of stuff... and most of it finishes better than BBW.
A lot of guys on coticule.be back in the day were saying they got edges just as good off BBW as off coti... which is so far off my results I basically stopped paying attention to those threads... because either they were convincing themselves of their hypothesis and their results were meaningless, or they had absolute miracle BBW hones that were nothing like any of the dozens I've tried and which most people would never get to experience.
I've tried a bunch of BBW. Never found one that was worth using in my experience. The only one that was even decent was a la lorraine, and it's not as good as a decent coticule... so why bother?
Can you sharpen start to finish on BBW? Sure. If you're willing to work hard enough you can sharpen start to finish on a lot of stuff... and most of it finishes better than BBW.
A lot of guys on coticule.be back in the day were saying they got edges just as good off BBW as off coti... which is so far off my results I basically stopped paying attention to those threads... because either they were convincing themselves of their hypothesis and their results were meaningless, or they had absolute miracle BBW hones that were nothing like any of the dozens I've tried and which most people would never get to experience.
Talk about nonsense at its best, hey...They lost me painting a bbw edge to edge with mastro livi levels of crox.
Just because its nonsense for you, does not make it so. Yes its a different approach, agreed. But don’t diss anything until you have tried it yourself...Talk about nonsense at its best, hey...
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Thank you for putting the effort to formulate a decent response.Oh my assumption would be that nonsense refers to considering that a BBW edge After finishing it like that. I don’t use crox and haven’t for many many years, but from what I recall typically you need about 1% of what they are using there and it will be reusable for months… So that seems quite wasteful, and certainly not a way to save money if that’s your reason for using a BBW. after finishing it like that.
Using pastes after honing has caused so much bad information to go out there. When we were still regularly having discussions over whether or not a norton 8K was a good shave, almost everyone saying it was was glossing over the fact that they would go to a pasted strop after using it. They were calling a .5 µm paste edge a norton 8k edge. It wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of the BBW proponents were doing the same.
Did they put Crox on the BBW???? Nonsense is a very mild term.
You could put Chrox on a cucumber and get a reasonable shave off it, but I prefer zucchini.