Once they arrive - scouts' honour.
What hones are trending in 2018?
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Steve56
Ask me about shaving naked!
Thank you @Alum of Potash ! I'm going to try lather too. Do you have/use the slurry stone on the Anchor?
Cheers, Steve
Cheers, Steve
I'm not a big fan of using slurries in general. But when I did try the Anchor for the first time, I attempted to start a slurry as that was mentioned on the website description. After some rubbing, little or no slurry appeared, so I went with what little was there before switching to water with a little dish-washing soap to emulsify things. Later, I wrote to Matt mentioning little or no slurry, and he confirmed that a slurry really wasn't needed there. So just water for me as the underlying work (up to 8k as recommended) has already been done.
Ah, well now I can cast that vote--dinosaur gizzard stone it is!
Hey huckleberry I voted for coticule!0 votes for coticules? What has the world come to?!
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Alright! We’re one step closer to the coticule takeover!
WooHoo!!
Easy now this is a family forum!What is a coticoocle?
Jnat finisher with Atoma slurry dilution and a rarely used 4/8k Shapton Glass progression. Atoma slurry has made a big difference for me as far as consistency of sharp/smooth edges. Either that or the more I hone the better I get. I like keeping it simple.
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I’d say that’s a big part of it.
As promised; 3 coticules in three days.
The largest:7" x 1 13/16th - like a cross between the "scratchy" and "glassy" types. Really smooth feel.
Middle one: Very hard. Unresponsive feel under the blade.
The wee one: Came on a wooden paddle, the sheath for which says "German Stone and Strop" (distributer / historic circumstance / linguistic designation..? Who knows).
Maybe I'll add new leather & re-stick the stone. There's a concave in the original surface, so the "off" side is now the honing surface, and it is extremely hard, almost hybridish, with a (quartz?) inclusion. Shame it's so small.
Coticules
Anything that i havent tried yet...that i can aquire cheap...lol.
This.
Can't vote for two stones... for the last 7 months all my razor work is done in two stones.
A big polishing coticule.
A vintage buttercup arkansas.
The crazy thing is that I keep learning, and the edges improving.
Next on my list is a blue/ black arkansas. Not sure if there is anything that can refine an edge futher?
A big polishing coticule.
A vintage buttercup arkansas.
The crazy thing is that I keep learning, and the edges improving.
Next on my list is a blue/ black arkansas. Not sure if there is anything that can refine an edge futher?
Wow...Glad to see another Arkansas fan. I can't believe there's only 3 votes so far.
Doesn't surprise me, very technical stones. Require a lot of dedication to tune up, technique and patience to coerce the great edges they are capable of.
I was tempted to vote for Arks, but quality ones are expensive to get to Britain, so I only have a few.
Sadly.
The Germans seem to love them, and it'd be cheaper to get them from there, but I prefer to get them from the "source".
