Thread: Video: Coticlue Speed Test

The Contestants:

1. Vintage Barber Hone: the shaves of this one are just okay, maybe I couldn't unlock it secrets, anyway the stone is somewhat fast with water.



2. Vintage Coticule glued to SDR: nice finisher medium to slow with water skin-friendly edge



3. A very hard hybrid coticule: Newcomer harder than my Ozuku almost as hard as an Arkansas Translucent, haven’t tested it yet.


4. La Veinette coticule: very fast, soft and fine I estimate it grit to be 10k+



5. Les Latneuses on one side (or maybe not) and Hybrid on the other: Nice stone that leave a very high polished edge, I shaved off one of those sides but can’t recall which one, it was a sweet shave.






The Test:
Nothing too scientific, just grabbed a Carbon Steel Mora classic No.3 and started sharpening while counting to 20 in my head and trying to maintain the same pressure.



Conclusion:

Coticlues are very fast stones


Winner:

4. La Veinette

Awesome. This is a type of video I mean to do someday when I have a good mounting solution to film. I love seeing how any given vein behaves. Even with play within veins, it helps give ppl basic ideas.

Have a dressante? My favorite vein. Huge capability across a broad range.

Originally Posted by kcb5150

Awesome. This is a type of video I mean to do someday when I have a good mounting solution to film. I love seeing how any given vein behaves. Even with play within veins, it helps give ppl basic ideas.

Thanks, I'm glad that you have like it. Coticules are really unique if you pay attention wihle using them you will note the differences between them.

As for the mount for filming, I'm using this 11 dollars clamp style smartphone stand.


They work fine fo me, unfortunately I got mine from the local flea market, so I can't give you a link especially that I have seen more than one variety, and this one has the most stiff wire.

Originally Posted by kcb5150

Have a dressante? My favorite vein. Huge capability across a broad range.

I just sold mine last month, nice creamy stone. What I regret that I haven't include in the video is a small vintage Coticule I got while back from France.



It is little soft and very fast, shame I have totally forgotten about it when I made the video.

Thanks for sharing.
Well done.

I've stopped myself from going to French eBay because every time I do, I end up importing another interesting coti...

I am strongly of the opinion that the difference in speed between coticules is least noticeable on water only. I have only found a few that have any considerable sharpening effect on a razor's edge while using medium to low pressure. Creamy Les Latneuses and La petite Blanche come to mind, and even those do not have too much of an impact in that department either.

I have a couple of blushing ones that can blacken water, but it's definitely not the norm

Originally Posted by Pithor

I am strongly of the opinion that the difference in speed between coticules is least noticeable on water only. I have only found a few that have any considerable sharpening effect on a razor's edge while using medium to low pressure. Creamy Les Latneuses and La petite Blanche come to mind, and even those do not have too much of an impact in that department either.

I think that you are right, how hard or soft the stone is has a lot to do with the speed here, in the case of the La Veinette in the video it is very soft coticule that auto-slurry a lot, but it has a lot of cutting power (maybe higher Garnet content) also the vintage barber hone after 10 laps you see the swirf increasing noticeably.

if you check the videos on my channel you will find that same La Veinette is used to hone a razor with light pressure on water, you will hardly see the swirf on it.

Originally Posted by AljuwaiedAK

I think that you are right, how hard or soft the stone is has a lot to do with the speed here, in the case of the La Veinette in the video it is very soft coticule that auto-slurry a lot, but it has a lot of cutting power (maybe higher Garnet content) also the vintage barber hone after 10 laps you see the swirf increasing noticeably.

Aljwaied

Excellent video, and using the same knife speeds up the visual results for us to see. Honing and making speed tests with razors is more difficult because the amount of steel being removed is not easily seen on the stone after just 10 or 20 light pressure strokes unless you have a microscope. With some stones or some razors you can see the beginning of a black steel swarf residue but with knives so much more is created. I don't want to switch your thread away from Cocitules, but here is a Jnat video I made with a heavier plane blade that shows some of the same results.