My new coticule from Superior Shave landed yesterday. 50x175 select. I've been using lapping film and it was just OK. I knew it could be better so I did alot of reading here and other sites on cotis.
And now I get it! I get what everyone is talking about by feedback from the stone, by making slurry, just the sound of the blade traveling over the rock is so cool. I had an hour to play with it and got a pretty decent edge on a large razor I have and I'm hooked.
Couple questions:
I rubbed the coti with the slurry stone about 20 times before any slurry created. Then it just rose up all over. Is the slurry created by the slurry stone, from the coti itself, both?
How fast is a 'fast' stone? 50 laps to an edge? less?
Anyways, I'm looking forwards to learning my coticule.
...Ray
And now I get it! I get what everyone is talking about by feedback from the stone, by making slurry, just the sound of the blade traveling over the rock is so cool. I had an hour to play with it and got a pretty decent edge on a large razor I have and I'm hooked.
Couple questions:
I rubbed the coti with the slurry stone about 20 times before any slurry created. Then it just rose up all over. Is the slurry created by the slurry stone, from the coti itself, both?
How fast is a 'fast' stone? 50 laps to an edge? less?
Anyways, I'm looking forwards to learning my coticule.
...Ray