I was reading through various forums yesterday and saw a conversation between 2 very knowledgeable gentlemen and they were discussing old barbering manuals and there was a classroom that many coticules could have instructions to refresh a razor on the coticule dry for a quick touch up and this piqued my interest. Ive been using them finishing on running water as is usually the advice given around forums but i never feel like the razor gets very sharp. I understand the dynamics of what coticules do to an edge and how the teeth are removed but what i was getting was wholly underwhelming compared to an ark progression or even synth waterstones.
I decided i was going to go through the progression on my coticule, and after im done with the running water i will dry my stone and hone on it dry. i start with bbw/lpb slurry because the mix seems to give me better edges. My new coticule is really fast, i do a dilucot in like 5 min, go to running water until it sticks. My coticule auto slurries a little after about 25 laps but it doesn't give up much.
When it's dry it feels like porcelain, as most do, and honing on it is like honing on my norton hs-4 i think it's from the 40s. It's translucent but with 0 teeth, unlike my big primitive translucent from dans. Honing on a dry coticule is a lot like honing on a wet one. Smooth strokes until it sticks.
I got surprisingly sharp edges from this, far surpassing anything i could ever imagine a coticule wwould. 20-100 strokes on that norton, depending how i feel, and my razor was as sharp as any synthetic has given me.
Try it or don't, i thought it was interesting that this was the proscription for barbers with their coticules and i was amazed how well it worked to bump up the keenness. Have fun!
I decided i was going to go through the progression on my coticule, and after im done with the running water i will dry my stone and hone on it dry. i start with bbw/lpb slurry because the mix seems to give me better edges. My new coticule is really fast, i do a dilucot in like 5 min, go to running water until it sticks. My coticule auto slurries a little after about 25 laps but it doesn't give up much.
When it's dry it feels like porcelain, as most do, and honing on it is like honing on my norton hs-4 i think it's from the 40s. It's translucent but with 0 teeth, unlike my big primitive translucent from dans. Honing on a dry coticule is a lot like honing on a wet one. Smooth strokes until it sticks.
I got surprisingly sharp edges from this, far surpassing anything i could ever imagine a coticule wwould. 20-100 strokes on that norton, depending how i feel, and my razor was as sharp as any synthetic has given me.
Try it or don't, i thought it was interesting that this was the proscription for barbers with their coticules and i was amazed how well it worked to bump up the keenness. Have fun!