Thread: Vintage Coticule?

Originally Posted by Utopian

I have nine vintage combo coticules and one that is, as Jimmy oddly put it, a "natural of recent vintage." Every one of them is different. Each one of them behaves slightly differently because of the simple fact that each of them actually is different. New or old, if your hone does not share saw marks with one of my hones, then your hone is going to be different from mine.
They're all different.
That is the nature of a natural hone, also known as a piece of ROCK.

Natures quality control does not work according to our standards, wether the stone is sedimentary or igneous she pretty much lets the raw material do as it will in accordance with the natural forces influencing it at the moment. Even two pieces of stone cut from a single piece of stone will have differences, sometimes large, some times small. No body is controlling the mix, the quality of any piece of stone is wholly arbitrary! As for vintage vs newly marketed, this would have to be fallacy, its all from the same time period, the same mix and the same natural influencess over the years.