Grinding and Honing part 4 Belgian Whetstones is on our site

We are pleased to inform you that the fourth part of the "Sharpening and Honing" is on our site.
You can find it at: Index website Henk en Ge Bos
17 different whetstones in 66 pg. and 354 pictures: Coticule layer identification Ol'Preu, Veine-aux-Poissons, Petite-Veinette, . Filet, Grosse-Blanche, Gros-Grès, Dressante, Jolie-Veinette, Petite-Blanche, Les deux Grosses-Latneuses, Nouvelle veine, La Grise, La Verte, La Veine aux Clous. Density and fineness, Vintage coticule identification, Kohsjer Coticule, Rouge de Salm / Lorraine, BBW Belgian Blue, Gillette stone, Gres du Cierreux, La Levant, CotPyr en CotCarb.
During more than 40 years many "facts" about whetstones have been noted and kept by me. This has led to a huge collection of unstructured data. The "facts" are supplemented with many pictures to enable me to recognize specific whetstones.
After a year of searching, puzzling, interviewing, comparing data, visiting companies and quarries is written a concept. After processing criticism, making additions and improvements the concept is completed with drawings, illustrations and photos. After that the concept is read once again and then translated as good as possible into English by my beloved. It’s not perfect and there will be needed further improvements. When we get a message about mistakes, the improvements will be processed in a next version. All the stones are identified by Maurice Celis. He was a wonderful help. Many thanks for that!
Hopefully you will go on to help me by delivering information about whetstones. After all we do not write for ourselves but for the community.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Henk Bos and Ge Bos-Thoma

Thank you for your work. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
MIke

Henk,

also my sincere thanks here on the forum for this wonderful work! Hope you will go on researching and collecting informations about whetstones.
All the best for you, Ge and your family. Have a good time and some great christmas holidays.

Best wishes Peter

Wow! Great information. That you for the effort!

Thank you for sharing all your knowledge, I am looking forward to reading it.
I wish you both a mery christmas and a happy new year.

Thanks for preserving facts and general info about straight razors. We all appreciate your efforts. Merry Christmas.......

oh my, what a great bunch of information. thanks!

Henk your researched is unparalleled. We greatly appreciate it. I look forward to reading about my favorite stones, the Belgians.

Thank you for further documenting the layer differences in slurry and water, speed, dull slurry, etc.

By the way, if you want to read parts 1,2,3, go to the index and be very selective with your pointer. The "PART 4" link is mixed in with the links for 1,2,3. It is possible to click the apparent links for 1,2, and 3 and keep getting part4 as I did the first time. The other parts are there...takes precision mousery.

Not too hard to figger out, but hope that helps.


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for those who might not be getting it: click specifically on "part x" to get the 1,2,3,4. if you click anywhere else in the title of the link, you'll only get part 4. si?

Henk,
Let me just say how much I appreciate your work and that you have shared this great information with us, Thank-you.

There is one statement that particularly caught my attention, on page 5, that the garnet concentration varies from 5-50% in Coticules.
I know this to be true, but this is the first I have seen it printed. I wonder what is the source of these numbers and whether you have some unpublished data on this.

Also, I would be happy to provide you with some SEM micrographs of Coticule garnets and Coticule surfaces if you would like to incorporate them in a later version. PM me if you are interested.