Thread: Wanna see a dished stone?...

Whoever has to lap it would end up throwing half the stone away. The only other alternative I see would be to live with it and hope for the best.

Break it into smaller pieces, which will make them orders of magnitude easier to lap, and sell them as slurry-raising stones (I know they have a name, but it escapes me). I would bet you could get a huge return on your investment if you did that.

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Originally Posted by paulo

Break it into smaller pieces, which will make them orders of magnitude easier to lap, and sell them as slurry-raising stones (I know they have a name, but it escapes me). I would bet you could get a huge return on your investment if you did that.

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That's an idea. This would work best with an actual wet saw stone/tile cutter (which I don't have). The name that escapes you is a "cotigura" slurry stone. Which is really just a made up name, a take off or amalgamation of the japanese nagura stone and the coticule. The cotiguras go for approx $18.

However.............my personal experience with cotigura slurry on a yellow coticule has not been favorable. It's too harsh on the edge and gives me negative return at that polishing stage. I only use water on my coticules. So, I don't know if there would be a market for cotiguras enough to spend the time cutting an old stone up. I could see cutting up an old natural Belgian Blue/Yellow Coticule stone into combo slurry stones. That would be cooler and I don't recall if that's been done.

Chris L

Chris L