coticule bout

[Webro]

Can someone please advise me how to lap a coticule bout, it is not that even and I find it hard to keep the razor flat.

[joel]

Can someone please advise me how to lap a coticule bout, it is not that even and I find it hard to keep the razor flat.

Lap it in the same way you'd lap any other stone. Use some wet/dry sandpaper and plate glass, or a DMT diamond plate. If it is particularly wide or mis-shapen use an infinity/figure 8 lapping pattern.
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[Webro]

Any particular grade of wet and dry?

Regards Alan

[joel]

Any particular grade of wet and dry?

Regards Alan

A lot of fellas use Norton 220. Personally - I don't use papers, so i'm not the best guy to ask :smile:

[gglockner]

Any particular grade of wet and dry?

Regards Alan

That would depend on how much material needs to be removed to get the surface flat. If it is really bad, you could start with 320 grit. I typically will start with 600 and work up or down depending on what it needed. Finishing hones I like to use the higher grits (1000-2000) to complete the process.

Glen

[Webro]

Guys sorry to keep asking so many questions, but before I source some wet and dry can I use my Norton Flattening stone to lap the coticule with.

Regards Alan

[shadow]

I wouldn't bother sourcing it, just go to Home Depot.

[English]

If the bout isn't flat, there is a good chance you will need to lap the coticule as well.

Incidentally, when you are done lapping the hone and the bout, you should find that the bout sticks to the watered hone with a vacuum seal. Then you know both surfaces are flat.

[sebell]

It sounds like he only has the coticule bout
and uses it as a hone. This just means that
it isn't rectangular in shape. I usually call
a small stone used to generate slurry a `slurry
stone', or if it's coticule then a `cotigura'.

- Scott

[English]

Scott,

You are correct. I must be loosing it. My apologies.

[Churchill]

I wouldn't bother sourcing it, just go to Home Depot.

Do they have Home Depots in Northern Ireland?:biggrin:

[papasmurf]

Do they have Home Depots in Northern Ireland?:biggrin:

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