Hello friends.
Probably this is my first post, but I am not new to the forum. 9 Months ago more or less (I am very bad with dates) Bart gave me advise for purchasing a Coticule. In that period, I was new to Straights. I was comming from DE razors and wanted to take the challange of the Straights. I bought a Spartacus TI razor and a solingen strop. I also wanted a hone, and was deciding between naniwas, chinesse, coti, BBw.... I had no idea by then. Bart suggested me going to the coti. Glad I did it.
Now, I have 2 razors, my spartacus and a new 7/8 friodur inox. I am able to follow the new dilucot method with success. Today I honed and shaved with the new friodur and no problem, really nice shave. I am very glad I followed Bart's advices. I feel that with one one, a Coti, I am mostly able to solve all my honning necessities.
The tittle describes it well. The coti is the only hone I have, and I am glad to say that I do not need any other hone or pastes... .
I still need to learn a lot of how to properly hone the razor. I am able to pass HHT after stropping, but need to improve. For example, the part of the blade that becomes to me very difficult to hone is the point. (1 cm from the point). Most of the time, I am not able to pass HHT in this part of the blade. This gives me the idea that a lot of learning is needed and that while I learn, I will still keep in improving my honning and my shaving experience.... So, Why do I need another hone? If I do, It will probably be a second coticule :thumbup:
Thanks all and have a happy new year.
Motero57
Probably this is my first post, but I am not new to the forum. 9 Months ago more or less (I am very bad with dates) Bart gave me advise for purchasing a Coticule. In that period, I was new to Straights. I was comming from DE razors and wanted to take the challange of the Straights. I bought a Spartacus TI razor and a solingen strop. I also wanted a hone, and was deciding between naniwas, chinesse, coti, BBw.... I had no idea by then. Bart suggested me going to the coti. Glad I did it.
Now, I have 2 razors, my spartacus and a new 7/8 friodur inox. I am able to follow the new dilucot method with success. Today I honed and shaved with the new friodur and no problem, really nice shave. I am very glad I followed Bart's advices. I feel that with one one, a Coti, I am mostly able to solve all my honning necessities.
The tittle describes it well. The coti is the only hone I have, and I am glad to say that I do not need any other hone or pastes... .
I still need to learn a lot of how to properly hone the razor. I am able to pass HHT after stropping, but need to improve. For example, the part of the blade that becomes to me very difficult to hone is the point. (1 cm from the point). Most of the time, I am not able to pass HHT in this part of the blade. This gives me the idea that a lot of learning is needed and that while I learn, I will still keep in improving my honning and my shaving experience.... So, Why do I need another hone? If I do, It will probably be a second coticule :thumbup:
Thanks all and have a happy new year.
Motero57