Chan Eil Whiskers
Fumbling about.
When was the "Like" button added? I never saw any use of it until today.
Wonder why.
Happy shaves,
Jim
It was added per your request.When was the "Like" button added? I never saw any use of it until today.
It was added per your request.
It was added per your request.
I’d also add that I’ve gone to at least 6 estate sales that had evidence of being a barber, or at least containing a stash of barber supplies.
Out of 6 literally 100% had at least one old Coticule that had wear on the BBW side from bread knifing. I think of that whole ordeal I found maybe 1 or 2 Coticules where the BBW had evidence of being used for actual honing.
So filling on glass may be a knew strange version of dulling an edge, but the practice of taking a “jointing pass” or bread knifing on a stone is both old and pervasive IME.
It's brilliant - there are so many posts that I enjoy and where I want to let the authors know but being British can't find anything suitable to say. A like button takes all the stress out of acknowledging them.It was added per your request.
I've seen a few videos where people are touching up their straights and in a lot of em, they run the blades edge across a piece of glass or the edge of their stone. Why. Seems like a wasted step. If you're wanting to refine the edge a little better, put it to the 8k and 12k for a few strokes instead of making the edge totally useless and having to do more work to clean it up. Thoughts?
....As for the gouges on old coticules, I've personally used coticules for chip removal and bevel setting and have found it easier to deal with chips if I "kill the edge" several times in my bevel setting stages until the chips are gone. It's a pretty aggressive way to take care of nick in the edge, but I'd be willing to bet a lot of those barbers with gouges in their stones are doing chip removal after dropping a straight.
Photos of the process.