Thread: Wanna see a dished stone?...

Now THIS is a dished stone (happens to be a vintage coticule). I think I would cry seeing all that coticule run down the drain to lap that one flat.

CLICK HERE

Chris L

WOW. You'd need power tools to lap it, or a TON of extra time.

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.

<don't look at me, I hardly have time to maintain my own razors!>

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.

<don't look at me, I hardly have time to maintain my own razors!>

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

Originally Posted by Chrisl

Now THIS is a dished stone (happens to be a vintage coticule). I think I would cry seeing all that coticule run down the drain to lap that one flat.

CLICK HERE

Chris L

Maurice Célis, the owner of the coticule quarry, found a huge amount of heave coticule slurry, somewhere in a storage room, after he took over the company. His wife and daughters have been using it "with outstanding results" as a sort of facial scrub cream. He made contact with the cosmetics industry, and they decided to run some tests on the stuff.
I don't know how that story ends, but as it stands, I'm going down there this weekend, with my straight shaving friends.We 're set up for a guided tour, that will be hosted by Maurice's son Rob.

Bart.

Originally Posted by Bart

I'm going down there this weekend, with my straight shaving friends.We 're set up for a guided tour, that will be hosted by Maurice's son Rob.
Bart.

Hi Bart,

We'd love to read your report and if possible see some pics of your trip.
I lived in the Coticule region for about a year when I was born (i.e. Liege) and still have some family living there. I plan to go visit a Coticule quarry later this year. If you have some contact/visit info I'd gladly appreciate it.

Have a nice time in the quarries,

Joël

Originally Posted by Bart

Maurice Célis, the owner of the coticule quarry, found a huge amount of heave coticule slurry, somewhere in a storage room, after he took over the company. His wife and daughters have been using it "with outstanding results" as a sort of facial scrub cream. He made contact with the cosmetics industry, and they decided to run some tests on the stuff.
I don't know how that story ends, but as it stands, I'm going down there this weekend, with my straight shaving friends.We 're set up for a guided tour, that will be hosted by Maurice's son Rob.

Bart.

Wow, please give us a report, Bart. That sounds awesome. I've conversed back and forth with Rob a bunch of times. He's a great guy to deal with. I've also purchased some stones from him. Please take pics of the coticule room; shelves and shelves of finished coticules!

Very cool. Have fun and tell Rob we all said hello.

Chris L

Haha, yeah I spotted that one earlier this evening. It'd be great for some kitchen knives that need convex edges, but that's about it.

Originally Posted by Chrisl

Wow, please give us a report, Bart. That sounds awesome. I've conversed back and forth with Rob a bunch of times. He's a great guy to deal with. I've also purchased some stones from him. Please take pics of the coticule room; shelves and shelves of finished coticules!

Very cool. Have fun and tell Rob we all said hello.

Chris L

The battery of my camera is charging as we speak.
We're doing a 3-day hike, all in sign of coticule industrial archeology. Our visit to the last operational mine is one of the highlights of our "coticule-tour". There are several closed down mine-sites in the vicinity (I've attached a map with just a few of them). Those mines were not closed down because they were depleted, only because it was no longer economically reasonable to exploit them. We're hoping to find out how "closed" they really are. I know of a caving club that has done some training over there, and there's a Dutch guy, that apparently relocated to the area, who has done some exploring of his own. I 've e-mailed him, but sadly he never answered back. Good photographic footage of a typical coticule mine can be found here: http://tchorski.morkitu.org/1/coticule.htm
Please excuse me for hiking your thread a bit. I'll post a full report in a new thread, after we get back.

Best regards,
Bart.