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Finishing strokes on Coticule La Dressante, Ralf Aust razor honing

During the finishing phase of razor honing the pressure applied with the razot to the stone should be as light as possible. One of the methods I found being helpfull for me to control the pressure is shown by this video. Here I am using Ralf Aust razor with the blade width of 6/8 inches. The sharpening stone is a vintage coticule from the layer la dressante. Its small size of 12cm x 3cm feels just right for this finishing method. Following a little help on how you can get easier into this honing approach. Hold your stone hand with palm up and bring 3 or 4 fingers together pointing up. The tips of the fingers doesn’t need to touch but to build a kind of „surface“. Now put your Coticule centered on top of your finger tips. You will find you balancing the costly Coticule on your fingertips, so take care :) If you’re feeling instabile or discomforting bring the fingertips a little away from each other to enlarge the surface contacting the Coticule. Both ends of the Coticule are hanging in the air... Once you feel good take your razor which need a final finish passes. If you razor does need more work than this method might be too time consuming. Balance the razor in your razor hand and first just place it at one end of the stone without moving it. You‘ll probably find the stone tilting. In this case lift the razor of the stone and try again. Your target is to place the Razor on the end of the stone without causing it to tilt. I‘ve needed several attempts to achieve this stage. Once the „first touch“ succeeded you can start performing the strokes. Very slow and gentle. In case you feel a disballance or discomfort lift the razor and try again. Keep relaxed and concentrate on the tones feedback. The time you'll start feeling an increase of the friction while doing the stroke along entire blade you are there. After coticule I usualy perform 60-70 stropping strokes on linen belt and another 60-70 on a fine leather. Happy shaving! P.S. Coticule has a slight convex to its surface from side to side. This helps me preventing razor-edge damages by the edges of the stone sides in case I'll tilt the razor accidently. Dieses Video enthält Produktplatzierungen/Werbung.