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dilucot method

Bart said:
Gary,

there's really not much more to say. I reckon you read the Advanced Feedback Markers article. Apart from that, it's all feel and doing too many laps.B) After a while you start doing less laps, till the point you notice the edge is not quite there when finishing. Now, "what is not quite there?" I can hear you asking.:) For me, when finishing I always do 50-something laps on water as a no-brainer. Then I test with the HHT. Everything less than a "violin" I consider "not quite there", and that requires reaching back into a thin slurry. But if I get the "violin", I know that if I keep at it, I'll eventually get the edge to sever hanging hairs. So I might do 1 rub with the slurry stone, add water and do 30 laps. I check again. Something will have changed, maybe the violin plays louder, maybe some parts of the edge start to catch & pop. So I might get up to get my shaving brush and paint lather on the Coticule before I do 30 stropping strokes. I check again, with half of the previous hair, that's just lying there. I might decide to do 20 half strokes on each side of the blade (water only). HHT. 100 rapid X-stokes with the spine in good contact, but the edge barely floating over the surface. HHT. Drystropping on the Coticule? Be my guest. HHT. Sometimes I find the edge at the very frist HHT, sometimes it takes me more perseverance. But I am confident that I can get there, so I don't give up. I don't come near a strop before my edge catches and pops hair along the entire edge. It saves money on CrO:rolleyes:

Best regards,
Bart.
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Hey Sir Bart, I read this post eagerly at the time of posting, and have come back to it tonight as I am just starting on water, finishing off a Dilucot hone on my Dovo (the one you did for me) and I have to say:
You dont do such a variation of things do you? c'mon My friend, i reckon you stick with just water or maybe a very light stroke of the slurry stone just to start then back on with straight water doing lighter and lighter laps?
Whatcha say amigo?? ;)
 
Ralphy,

8 out of 10 times, the edge pops hairs straight after the first attempt to finish on water.
But on those 2 other times, I might try all the aforementioned variations, till I'm pleased with the HHT-results.

Bart.
 
Bart what texture of hair do you test of hone, xtra fine/ fine / medium or thick and i take it you will move onto strop if your hitting hht 3 then after strop plus 2 hht 3 being catch and pop ?
 
I would qualify it as medium coarse hair. The thicker ones I use for testing off the hone. The thinnest hairs I save for testing ofter the first stropping session. Off the Coticule, anything that pops a hair is fine, even if it needs to be dragged across (not along) the edge a bit. After stropping the hair should fall or pop as soon as it touches the edge.

Bart.

PS. for OTB, I will include a small box of hairs for testing.
 
Sorry Bart, you might have explained why you paint soap lather on the Coti previously, but I was unable to find it. Can you please let me know why you use soap lather on the Coti instead of water only.

Thanks

Al :blush:
 
excel_1111 said:
Sorry Bart, you might have explained why you paint soap lather on the Coti previously, but I was unable to find it. Can you please let me know why you use soap lather on the Coti instead of water only.
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I turned my answer into an article for the Coticule Sharpening Academy. Still need to publish a picture, as soon as I found it on my computer.
http://www.coticule.be/honing-on-lather.html

Kind regards,
Bart.
 
Very cool article Sir Bart :thumbup:

p.s You may want to add the word "slow" to this sentence:

"They are already quite when used with water only"
 
Thanks Ralfy,

I had a volunteer for proofreading the website, but he kind of vanished into thin air...:rolleyes:

I'll make the correction.

Kind regards,
Bart.
 
Bart said:
Thanks Ralfy,

I had a volunteer for proofreading the website, but he kind of vanished into thin air...:rolleyes:

I'll make the correction.

Kind regards,
Bart.
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Mmm was he a Bat? Hahaha
 
tat2Ralfy said:
Mmm was he a Bat? Hahaha
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No, my friend Smythe has never let me down. Neither did the friend who said he'd look into it. I guess he has more important priorities, which is quite acceptable for me.

I'd hate to think we all aren't here in our own due time.

Bart.
 
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