Thread: Vintage Coticule?

In any endeavor in which you engage, there is always an element that will say "Oh, the old stuff was much better and today's stuff is just a shadow of what once was". I've heard this with knife steels, hand tools, fishing lures, bows (archery), anviles, and firearms. It's generally a bunch of crap. Until someone has a laboratory pulverize a vintage coticule and a newly mined coticule and subjects the samples to X-ray diffraction analysis and other tests used by petrologists to determine the quantities of various minerals found in a rock, no one KNOWS anything about the quantity of garnet in coticules.

The only difference in coticules that are "vintage" is that they've been out of the same mine in the same formation 50 or 100 years. There are different grades of coticule and a euro grade that is vintage won't compare to a Select grade that is new. My opinion in this matter comes from my experience with dozens of coticules both new and vintage over the past 6 years of honing and shaving with straight razors.