but if i remeber rightly yours did swarf up on water with half strokes?
thats the one, it swarfed up quite a bit when I was finishing on water. I lapped it with the BBW I have and it swarfs up far less and has made it far easier to work with when finishing on it, it also feels smoother as well.
how would you rate your shaves of your coticule?
I've been testing the razors about twice a day on my face and they don't give razor burn even after a second two pass shave, and they shave pretty decent, they don't pull, but don't glide either.
I took the razor that I got a good hht off of a one stroke slurry and decided I would miss out the halfstrokes to rule them out as a factor. I did 50 xstrokes and have ended up with a good HHT3 maybe 4 in some spots. I also gave it a tiny bit more pressure on the linen. I've started to feel it on the linen smooth itself out as I'm stropping on it more so I went to 80 laps and that seemed to give a much more definitive hht. I haven't shaved with it yet, but I shaved with it off the slurry and it was pretty comfortable, so I can only imagine its going to be better.
It might be a good tip for beginners to check the hht off the slurry, and if its not good enough refresh the slurry and go from there. Because I thought the hht came from the water part. For me it gave a better understanding of where each stage can get to before going to water and isolates areas making it easier to find a fault in technique and focus on that area. I was going back and forward wondering what was wrong
Now I know wher I'm heading and I just need to refine my technique and hopefully be hitting hht4 and 5's very soon.
Your right, I don't like using pastes I tried them and they were nice, but too easy and I like the skill of the coti. better
I unicotted a couple of edges and they were nice, but I'm a necessity guy and I would only use unicot if I was in a rush or totally fed up with getting to grips with the coti or in 10 years time if I have a wife or kids and can't be bothered finding the coti edge, it'll always be handy to have a quick escape route to a good edge
cheers Alex