garyhaywood
Well-Known Member
received my la dressante au-blue combo,
The hone is 175x40 and is the perfect size . i orderd the hone from ardaneese and i asked for a medium cutter, not fast. As i find a slower cutting coticule easiest to reach keeness. i sold my nu 3 and replaced it with the combo. it just so happend this was a combo so i thats the reason i wanted it.
i have worked with da's and duble duck and my dovo from setting bevel to finishing on coticule with dilucot method , oh and my stubben TI.
The hone generates slurry and loads of it with just a light rub.
the hone easily sets a bevel that has been dulled on glass with just 30 to 60 normal or baack and forth strokes. No problems there.
the hone has nice feel not as glassy as my burton yellow side but a nice textured feel which i prefer.
The ti at the end of dilucot has struggled on hht for some reason. After 30 on water the hht was not bad. I performed 20 laps on water at a time. I checked HHT each time. There was big improvemant each time. this hone seems to improve on water very well. Judging by the HHT that was all good after 100 laps water.
all in all every razor has improved real nice on final stages.
The shaves of this coticule are very smooth indeed. the actaul edge feels sharp/smooth, where as some coticule edges can feel smooth but dull on your face/either way both edges shave justa differant feel.
I actauly shaved a customer with da the other day ,well he is a tennant above my shop so i just grabbed him to try the da i just honed.
As i could not feel the edge i could feel the da glided nicley . the lad i was shaving said it was the best edge i had shaved him with, he also said it felt smoother:thumbup: i also shaved a customers head with same razor and he never batted an eye lid. so i'm happy once again. I've put my other hybrid and my 21 away for a while and i'm going to work on this combo for quite some time. that way i'm sticking to one coticule. using all 4 of them is throwing me out a little and i just carn't make my mind up which one to use. So thats why i'm sticking with the combo for a while. not tryed blue properly yet . apart from i set bevel on yellow i worked bbw slurry i hit the water on yellow and managed to get hht on da. Not brill but i could not of done that 2 years ago with my old combo.
The hone is 175x40 and is the perfect size . i orderd the hone from ardaneese and i asked for a medium cutter, not fast. As i find a slower cutting coticule easiest to reach keeness. i sold my nu 3 and replaced it with the combo. it just so happend this was a combo so i thats the reason i wanted it.
i have worked with da's and duble duck and my dovo from setting bevel to finishing on coticule with dilucot method , oh and my stubben TI.
The hone generates slurry and loads of it with just a light rub.
the hone easily sets a bevel that has been dulled on glass with just 30 to 60 normal or baack and forth strokes. No problems there.
the hone has nice feel not as glassy as my burton yellow side but a nice textured feel which i prefer.
The ti at the end of dilucot has struggled on hht for some reason. After 30 on water the hht was not bad. I performed 20 laps on water at a time. I checked HHT each time. There was big improvemant each time. this hone seems to improve on water very well. Judging by the HHT that was all good after 100 laps water.
all in all every razor has improved real nice on final stages.
The shaves of this coticule are very smooth indeed. the actaul edge feels sharp/smooth, where as some coticule edges can feel smooth but dull on your face/either way both edges shave justa differant feel.
I actauly shaved a customer with da the other day ,well he is a tennant above my shop so i just grabbed him to try the da i just honed.
As i could not feel the edge i could feel the da glided nicley . the lad i was shaving said it was the best edge i had shaved him with, he also said it felt smoother:thumbup: i also shaved a customers head with same razor and he never batted an eye lid. so i'm happy once again. I've put my other hybrid and my 21 away for a while and i'm going to work on this combo for quite some time. that way i'm sticking to one coticule. using all 4 of them is throwing me out a little and i just carn't make my mind up which one to use. So thats why i'm sticking with the combo for a while. not tryed blue properly yet . apart from i set bevel on yellow i worked bbw slurry i hit the water on yellow and managed to get hht on da. Not brill but i could not of done that 2 years ago with my old combo.
