Thread: Wanna see a dished stone?...

I have to correct myself on the marks I've put on the attached map in the precious post.
Just got back from "Coticule County", and while there are many former mining sites in that area, I mistakingly read the "min" markings on the map as "mine", while in fact it is the abbreviation for "moulin", which means mill. So the places I marked, were actually water mills.

It was an amazing trip though. We saw A LOT of coticule, and learned a great deal about it. As promised, I 'll write the full story in another thread. That will take me a few more days, because there is a vast amount of information to share.
Just to tease you guys, I'm posting a picture of a WW2 monument. The big stone is Belgian Blue and Coticule.

Chisl, Rob Celis spoke about you, even before I had the chance to say hello on your behalf. He asked me to salute you all.

Hmmmm, what makes you guys think that stone really needs to be lapped flat? Is it just the current SRP trend?

It was obviously honing razors long after that dishing first appeared, and probably right up to the time the barber (likely assumption) stopped using it.

My first vintage coticule (from my Grandfather) was dished like that, and it honed razors just fine.


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Scott

(Ut-Oh....just noticed my posting count......ooooooohhhhhh!) (Edit - It was 666 at time of this post)

I think it would create a bit of a convex edge. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but if you were to use different hones, they would need to have similar curves and perhaps you would have to use a bit more slack with the strop.
If that coticule was your only stone, as it was for many straight razor shavers in the past, and the rest of your methods were adapted to that curved stone, I believe you are right.

Bart.