A 4 or 5K synth in between will bridge that gap nicely.
What did you hone today?
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Better yet, a 4 or 5K followed by Tsushima Kuro (to transition to naturals) to your coticule would be sweeter still.
Good idea. Aren't those hard to find?
Sort of, ask Gamma.
11/16 Wade & Butcher and Hashir (Not sure of Dimensions, came free with a strop)
Japanese Red Clay #1200 to Guangxi 12K to Hard Ark.
Japanese Red Clay #1200 to Guangxi 12K to Hard Ark.
That is a disturbingly beautiful stone!
Thanks Brian. It's one of my favorites.
Le grelot le loup de mer. I didn't quite cut deep enough into it for the first honing and it showed some oxidation related microchipping. Went all the way back to shapton glass 500, 1k just to tidy up, really hard vintage coticule slurry to water, followed on by an apache black Gila on a mix of glycerin and water for the first test run. It deleted any and all scratches. Bevel looks beautiful. Fingers crossed...
How's the feedback on your Gila?
I ran a blade across it on just water the other day just to see what it felt like and I didn't care for it too much. It felt like it was skating on the rock for 10 laps till all of a sudden it got that chattery stop and go thing that you would get on a really polished trans ark if you had it sort of underlubed and the razor was at a certain refinement level. A little glycerine stopped all that totally and it felt beautiful. First 10 laps it got smoother and smoother and then it started undercutting the fluid (this was the point on water it felt odd but this time nothing bad), and then I stopped at 25 as I figured it wasn't going to get any better. That is one hell of a fine coticule, I'm impressed it killed all the scratches so quickly on a blade with pretty hard steel. I think it would take fewer laps on most blades
Enjoying the great outdoors.
Duane Cutlery 5/8 full hollow.
Duane Cutlery 5/8 full hollow.
Awesome view, enjoy!
Nice. Looks very relaxing.
Finished a torrey near wedge on the apache black gila. I suspect this is going to be a great combo.
Awesome looking setup! I really want to get into naturals sometime and use the one stone with 3-4 Nagura's. That sounds great to me!
Is that stone one of those black Gila's or something else?
Is that stone one of those black Gila's or something else?
most likely a jnat. B T M K most likely are nagura botan, tenjyou, meijiro, koma respectively. the other pieces appear to be tomonagura.
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Very nice! I can't wait til I get into honing on a jnat and a set of Nagura's. I love the idea of naturals over synthetics!
Honed up a M.J.Higgins on this vintage coticule.Very happy with both of these recent purchases.The razor is a real smooth shaver.
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