Thread: Vintage Coti?

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Hmmm, that is a lot of $ for what it was. My best coticule out of over a dozen is one recently harvested ( 2 years ago) from Ardennes Coticule and imported by The Perfect Edge. An 8x3 combo. I don't know what layer it came from but here are a couple of shots. Beats the pants off any other coticule I have honed on be they vintage or recent and that is over a dozen.

Jimmy, I've said that time and time again. It has nothing to do with Vintage. It's the stone, period...Vintage is a relative term with Cot's since they are 500 million years old. Yes, Yes, I've heard that all the good ones have been mined out...I don't think so....
FWIW, Rob just opened a mine that was shut in the 60's.....so, could those be considered Vintage....Hmmmmm

Originally Posted by zib

FWIW, Rob just opened a mine that was shut in the 60's.....so, could those be considered Vintage....Hmmmmm

Rich, that just got me to thinking .... in the 1950s men still wore their hair short, got shaves in barber shops and things were as they had been for decades. Barbers honed razors on coticules. At least the ones I knew in Newark did.

In the mid '60s young people began wearing beards and long hair. By the '70s barbers were hurting as the new hip look took hold and even older folks started with the new style. Between that and the growth of 'unisex hair salons' the old traditional barber shops began to die out.

My guess is those mines closed because of the changing business curve in the barbering industry. Not because they ran out of good rock . I could be wrong though, I've been wrong a couple of times before.