Thread: New to me vintage Coti combo

Just arrived in the mail a bit ago. I bought this from someone over on the B&B forum. Looks like a great combo and is 7x1.5. I haven't used BBW before but look forward to trying it out. I have no idea what vein this is, but it looks to me like it will be a good one.

That's a nice looking stone. I know nothing about the coti veins, but I imagine the fact that it is vintage and obviously occurs at a border with a blue vein would help narrow it down for the experts.

I have a natural Belgian combo stone (2 actually, but one is on sabbatical in the US) and an unnatural combo stone (a vintage Pike bbw/coti glued together). I have to say the unnatural combo performs better than the natural one, I suppose simply because they were able to choose the two sides to glue together rather than having to take what mother nature gave them and hope it was OK.

However that may be, I am sure you will enjoy that stone and have many happy hours discovering its secrets!

James.

EDIT: I very much like your sig.

The thing about vintage stones is ...... unless it is somehow recognizable to an expert @ Ardennes Coticule, the current source of mined coticules, it will probably be impossible. Each mine had pet names for their veins. Not for end users to ID them, but for the mine, and the workers, to facilitate day to day logistics in running the business.

Even if you knew that it came from this or that vein, that knowledge wouldn't guarantee that the stone would perform the same as another from that same vein mined 3 feet away from yours. These were made from environmental deposits over thousands of years, and the environment wasn't necessarily constant. ....... IMHO. Hope you got a good one.

Gave a go with it just a bit ago. Took one of my razors through slurry on the coti side, then slurry on the blue, and finished back on the coti with a very light slurry, and then clear water. Will shave with that one in the morning. It looks promising as it was effortlessly cutting arm hair about 1/4" above the skin all along the blade.

As much as I'd like to know what type of coti it is, I really don't care all that much as long as it performs well. I just hope it compliments my other coti!

That looks far different from the new combo coti's they are selling now. That's a nice stone though!

IDK what it is about them but the combos that are very wavy on the sides like that always seem to have notable performance.