I just finished watching Lynn Abram's DVD and I was looking for the 12,000 grit coticule stone online...but it appears, based on other websites, that the yellow is an 8000 grit stone? Does anyone have any clarification on that? Thank you!
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I just finished watching Lynn Abram's DVD and I was looking for the 12,000 grit coticule stone online...but it appears, based on other websites, that the yellow is an 8000 grit stone? Does anyone have any clarification on that? Thank you!
As I understand it coticules are actually 8,000 grit give or take but due to the way the garnets in the stone cut the ending result is closer to 10,000 to12,000 grit!
JMS is right. Grit size is only part of the equation. Natural stones tend to cut slower and finer than their man-made counterparts of the same particle size. It's kind of confusing sometimes. :)
Josh
Awesome! Thanks guys!
i ordered the norton 4000-8000 (again) today from vintagebladesllc and i thought that that was all i needed to hone a razor
what is a coticule and does one need it to get that fine edge
and if so where do i get one??
thanks
Talk to Howard; his website is www.theperfectedge.com
Unless you're in europe. Then it might be easier to get them straight from where they\re mined. I got mine there and they're great (my new ones that is. I got my old one...the one in the video off e-bay.)
The workhorse hone is the Norton4/8. The Belgian hone falls into a class called a finishing hone. There a number of different finishing hones . Some people also use a abrasive pasted paddle strop after the Norton 4/8. Some guys use both.Quote:
Originally Posted by raZor
But... you do not NEED anything more than the 4/8 and a plain leather strop.
Just my two cents,:)
Just DON'T buy them from the razor and shaving shop in Antwerp. At least, not if you cannot go over there and check them for yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by LX_Emergency
I have seen what they sell, and some of it is junk that is not worthy to hone a razor. They don't sell select grade, so you might get a good one, but then again you might buy something that can only be used on pocket knives.
On top of that, it is cheaper to buy from Howard and have it shipped, than to drive to Antwerp and buy it in person.
you can get it from the source....let me find the link...here it is
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Originally Posted by LX_Emergency
Available in your choice of four languages......
........as long as it's French!
the French..... :p
-whatever
-Lou
Hey - I was just wading around in that site (kind of like stumbling through the Louvre - can't read the signs - no idea where I am or where I'm going, just enjoying the trip!) -- anyway, I found a gallery of pictrues that seem to indicate that they use these stones as 'building materials'....
http://straightrazorpalace.com/image.../FVOBFA/12.jpg
http://straightrazorpalace.com/image.../FVOBFA/20.jpg
http://straightrazorpalace.com/images/zoom/FVOBFA/5.jpg
...which got me to thinking.....
.....you know how they use granite for countertops?...well, how cool would it be to have a huge freakin' Belgian coticule as your bathroom countertop??? You're shaving away, feel just a trace of drag....boom...slap a little lather on the counter and tune the ol' blade up!...wham, bam, thankyoumam....sweeeeet!
....I'm gonna go buy a lottery ticket!
-whatever
-Lou
Friends: "Hey, Lou...what are you doing this weekend? Let's go out on the boat, get a bunch of beers, catch a bunch of fish, and go over to the beach at Green Bay and have a barbeque!"
Lou: "N-a-a-a-h......I've got to lap my bathroom countertop!"
......never mind!
-whatever
-Lou
That's gotta be one mother of a lapping stone.Quote:
Originally Posted by scarface