chti_lolo
Well-Known Member
As I become more interested in honing with a coticule and have nothing to do but waiting for my first shaving equipment which should arrive home soon, I remember something I've read on B&B. It was an experiment of Joel of different kind of honing http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?t=29575.
In his conclusion, Joel noticed a slight difference between a vintage coticule stone and a new quarried one. So I wonder if there exists (or have existed) some stone with very special arrangement of garnets which give them exceptional finishing quality. Or may be the newer hone might be slower than the vintage and needed some more strokes but the solution is certainly not so easy as I think Joel would have investigated on this.
Joel noticed also that better results were obtained with diamond pastes or chromium oxyde (even if the edge was not as rigid and long lasting as with the hones), is it possible with recent development of coticule honing to get these results?
Laurent
In his conclusion, Joel noticed a slight difference between a vintage coticule stone and a new quarried one. So I wonder if there exists (or have existed) some stone with very special arrangement of garnets which give them exceptional finishing quality. Or may be the newer hone might be slower than the vintage and needed some more strokes but the solution is certainly not so easy as I think Joel would have investigated on this.
Joel noticed also that better results were obtained with diamond pastes or chromium oxyde (even if the edge was not as rigid and long lasting as with the hones), is it possible with recent development of coticule honing to get these results?
Laurent