Thread: A Wade & Butcher With Spanish Point

Beautiful stone, Mike-I've only fooled around with cotis, never owned one.

I think the only folks who can identify from which vein a coti came with any authority are in Europe.

Mike, yours is quite unlike the ones I have. Two of mine are natural combos with the coti side a beige-yellow with virtually no streaks of any other colour. They provide comfortable shaving edges and I can bump the keenness using CrOx or my Shapton Glass 30k.

Aaron, compared to the cost of some other natural stones, they were relatively inexpensive. I paid $90 Canadian (about $70 US, which included shipping) for my 6” x 1.5” x 1” combo and the seller included a combo slurry stone and a small green Thuri.

Originally Posted by DZEC

I think the only folks who can identify from which vein a coti came with any authority are in Europe.

Mike, yours is quite unlike the ones I have. Two of mine are natural combos with the coti side a beige-yellow with virtually no streaks of any other colour. They provide comfortable shaving edges and I can bump the keenness using CrOx or my Shapton Glass 30k.

Aaron, compared to the cost of some other natural stones, they were relatively inexpensive. I paid $90 Canadian (about $70 US, which included shipping) for my 6” x 1.5” x 1” combo and the seller included a combo slurry stone and a small green Thuri.

Yep, searched thru Ardeenes library of stuff, and others, to no avail.
Mine are vintage Coties, that have glued BBWs in them, no Nat. combos.

One,not pictured, is like yours. But about the size of a barbers hone.

One has dark, feathering streaks. ( good cutter, slurry turns gray, quickly)



The other is a sand color, with purple dots. It falls between the two pictured, as how they finish an edge. So they actually work in a progression, together.




Knowing what vein would be nice, but is still irrelevant, being no coti is the same, even cut from the same vein, IMHO. And, like you, Cr/Ox is needed to make a coti, shine.! Not a hone for all razors, but they do seem to fit nicely, with old Sheffield, steel.