Ok so wadda I do? It's well dished but I ran a razor across it last night and it feels lovely.
It's a dish that looks like a coti, a coti-dish, a dishy-coti
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Coti frown..hehe..dmt325 for awhile should fix it..as long as blade edge makes contact with coticule surface..you should be ok
leave it it will be ok. many have said they get good results with natural dished coticule..
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Gary, the problem is that the dish isn't uniform, it's like the corkscrew at Alton Towers! The middle is good but the edges are a little rounded.
I had a few that were "well loved" in a former life. All great hones, but not fun lapping time.
Time for the belt sander.
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Maybe I'll just admire it for a while, attack it with my belt sander when the missus isn't looking and try not to lose a finger at the same time.
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Don't have any dmt's. Need to get one but can't afford it at the moment, have to sell a couple of straights and DE's.
is it really worth the effort to try to lap that flat?
I'd say just use it as is for kitchen/pocket knives
Or you could just use one end of the stone, some folks say a concave edge will last longer.
I'd say just use it as is for kitchen/pocket knives
Or you could just use one end of the stone, some folks say a concave edge will last longer.
That's a beauty, it would be worth it to lap it flat to me. A shame that you can't use it as is. That dish would make a convexed edge not concave. A convexed edge on a knife is MUCH stronger and stays sharper longer. Would be interested to see how I would do on a razor.
If it were mine I'd make that my knife coticule.
i wouldn't lap it....
i would hone a couple razors and see how they turn out.... if they are good... the keep it up...
the problem with lapping that is your gonna lose a chitload of stone flattening it out....
just use it...
i would hone a couple razors and see how they turn out.... if they are good... the keep it up...
the problem with lapping that is your gonna lose a chitload of stone flattening it out....
just use it...
The BBW side seems pretty flat. Use the yellow side as is. It didn't stop the previous owner!
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Ok, I had a good look last night and it's not just dished lengthways but also crossways. I'm gonna try and lap it so that it remains more or less flat crossways but stays dished lengthways. Gonna be fun! One thing I will say is that it's a lovely shape to hold and seems fast on water when I gave it a quick run on an old razor.
My suggested approach would be to cut off a section from the thick end, then lap the rest flat. You'll then have two stones from the same grade: one for slurrying and one for the honing. Looking at your picture, you'd still have a very serviceable length one you've made a cut. Of course, the cut off would need lapping also.
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