Thread: My coticules and thuringians collection

Originally Posted by jollo74

It's all settled then - thanks gentlemen .

I'm aware that it's a somewhat peculiar hobby, but even my wife agrees that it's better than young women or fast cars ... And I feel that we have an environment here, where I can share it with other enthusiasts.

Cheers
Jörg

Not a peculiar hobby at all. And, I love seeing everyone's stones!

You're wife is exactly right, also!! I'm too old for both, but I'd still give a fast car a workout if I could pry myself into one!

Besides with stones, they get skinnier when they get older and won't rust to dust!

Hi there,

it's been a while since my latest acquisitions, but here are two more coticules that have found their way to me :

The first one comes with a little story: it had been part of a sharpening stone lot and on the sales picture the coticule lay beside a nice translucent Arkansas and I thought "Damn, that must be a huge coticule" . Here are the two:



Well, once they arrived I found that the Arkansas was tiny and the coticule not that BIG as hoped :



Okay, it's 12 x 4,4 x 3,1 cm and weighs 460 g, so it's not too bad.

Here are some more pictures, on the last one you can see that sometime in the past it must have been longer and that one part broke off (a shame, really):





Cheers
Jörg

And here's the next one, in standard French razor hone size, i.e. 17.5 x 4,2 cm:







I had to do quite some flattening, here's how it looked when I received it :



Cheers
Jörg

Originally Posted by jollo74

And here's the next one, in standard French razor hone size, i.e. 17.5 x 4,2 cm:

jörg, nice stones, thanks for sharing!

my best coticule is 175 x 42 mm. you call this the standard french size. so, was this a size typical for hones cut for the french market?

regards,
hans

Beautiful stones! It's a shame so much of the one needed to be lapped away to get it flat again. How long did it take to smooth that fellow out?

First of all, thanks for the nice comments and "likes" !

Originally Posted by Marshal

Beautiful stones! It's a shame so much of the one needed to be lapped away to get it flat again. How long did it take to smooth that fellow out?

True, it's a shame, but at least from its state I can deduce that someone loved and used this stone a lot ! The lapping didn't take too long, maybe 30 mins altogether. Coticules usually aren't that hard (unlike Arkies, as you know very well ) and I used a steel lapping plate with grit 50 SiC powder, then 150 grit SiC powder, followed by coarse DMT and 600 Atoma.

I don't really worry or mind that the coticule-layer is rather thin on one side as it's a natural combination stone: I don't have to worry of it coming loose. And I like using the BBB side on my smaller kitchen knives (it's much harder than the coticule side and you can apply some pressure for such knives, not for razors obviously).

Cheers
Jörg

Originally Posted by brightred

jörg, nice stones, thanks for sharing!

my best coticule is 175 x 42 mm. you call this the standard french size. so, was this a size typical for hones cut for the french market?

regards,
hans

Hi Hans, yes, from my experience that's a very common coticule razor hone size in France . I currently own 3 of such coticules, all of them bought in France, and, if I remember correctly, I had at least two more at some time in the past. However, I've never come across a coticule of this size "in the wild" here in Germany.

Cheers
Jörg