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    OMG!
    Beautiful coticule!

    I'm jealous!
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    I need to move to Europe.........
    Is it over there or over yonder?

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    Can't add anything new but wow is that ever beautiful!

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    Quote Originally Posted by hatzicho View Post
    The stone actually is a natural combo! - even not a very thick one. The dimensions are 16 ¾ inches long, 3 inches wide and 0.5 inch thick.


    And to be honest - when Ardennes cut and lapped it years ago, it turns out, that the blue section you see on the right/upper part of the hone in the first picture consists mainly of quartz (like it is sometimes the case for the hybrid side of the Les Latneuses). So they decided not to sell it as a hone.
    I just gave it a try and found out, that, if you leave the last 5 inch with the blue area untouched it could well serve as a good hone!
    Hi Peter,

    Impressive stone you got there, I can imagine two people honing on it in the same time

    I remember reading while back a post by Bart @ Coticule.Be that the Les Latneuses Hybrid layer is sandwiched between two coticules layers, which mean that bbw and Coticule Combo isn't possible if Bart info was correct.

    http://www.coticule.be/the-cafeteria/topic/1284.html

    So where your stone come from ? A new discovery in the same Les Latneuses vein or perhaps another vein ?


    Thanks for sharing this unusual and stunning stone.
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    Hello, very nice looking stone I must say. I know nothing about it so I wont pretend to. Now is that stone going to cut into stones for honing. I guess that is what it is used for I take it. What would the grit value of that stone be? It looks to be very hard so I guess that it would be used for finishing the hone and polishing the bevel I would guess to say.

    Anyhow very nice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AljuwaiedAK View Post
    Hi Peter,

    Impressive stone you got there, I can imagine two people honing on it in the same time

    I remember reading while back a post by Bart @ Coticule.Be that the Les Latneuses Hybrid layer is sandwiched between two coticules layers, which mean that bbw and Coticule Combo isn't possible if Bart info was correct.

    http://www.coticule.be/the-cafeteria/topic/1284.html

    So where your stone come from ? A new discovery in the same Les Latneuses vein or perhaps another vein ?


    Thanks for sharing this unusual and stunning stone.
    I was actually wondering the same thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pithor View Post
    I have never seen a combination mottled Les Latneuses, by the way.
    Nor have I! Splendid Les Latneuses specimen!

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    Quote Originally Posted by AljuwaiedAK View Post
    Hi Peter,

    Impressive stone you got there, I can imagine two people honing on it in the same time

    I remember reading while back a post by Bart @ Coticule.Be that the Les Latneuses Hybrid layer is sandwiched between two coticules layers, which mean that bbw and Coticule Combo isn't possible if Bart info was correct.

    http://www.coticule.be/the-cafeteria/topic/1284.html

    So where your stone come from ? A new discovery in the same Les Latneuses vein or perhaps another vein ?


    Thanks for sharing this unusual and stunning stone.
    Let me try the following explanation. First of all the Les Latneuse Layer is a coticule layer or actually two layers that are separated by the so-called hybrid layer. But the main layer that defines a Les Latneues is the coticule layer, not the so-called hybrid layer. This hybrid layer is defined as maybe a mixture of coticule with BBW, that also has a certain amount of quartz included.
    This layer could also occur in other places in the coticule quarries and is not necessarily connected to a Les Latneuses.

    On the second hand it could also well be a hybrid layer that has accompanied the Les Latneuses. In normal layer structure it is embedded in the two coticule layers, but very often in the quarries, the layers don’t run straight but were bended. In this bends it is possible, that the typical structure breaks out and blue phyllade layers were shifted into the coticule matrix, so that the hybrid layers get in direct contact to the blue layers.
    The following picture from a sample shown in the coticule museum show the impacts of such a bend and how the blue layers can run into the coticule layers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hatzicho View Post
    Let me try the following explanation. First of all the Les Latneuse Layer is a coticule layer or actually two layers that are separated by the so-called hybrid layer. But the main layer that defines a Les Latneues is the coticule layer, not the so-called hybrid layer. This hybrid layer is defined as maybe a mixture of coticule with BBW, that also has a certain amount of quartz included.
    This layer could also occur in other places in the coticule quarries and is not necessarily connected to a Les Latneuses.

    On the second hand it could also well be a hybrid layer that has accompanied the Les Latneuses. In normal layer structure it is embedded in the two coticule layers, but very often in the quarries, the layers don’t run straight but were bended. In this bends it is possible, that the typical structure breaks out and blue phyllade layers were shifted into the coticule matrix, so that the hybrid layers get in direct contact to the blue layers.
    The following picture from a sample shown in the coticule museum show the impacts of such a bend and how the blue layers can run into the coticule layers.

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    Thanks Peter that was very clear and including the picture of the slab helped a lot. BTW, I got a vintage barber hone combo that has a very hard glass like inclusion at one corner, the inclusion can be felt in lapping and honing and strangely enough it doesn't have a bad effect on the honed blade at least nothing I have noticed, the Coticule is very soft and you can see blackening after 5-8 laps with light pressure as the Coticule auto slurry a lot, but the area around the inclusions feels harder a bit and doesn't appear to blacken as the rest of the Coticule. A respected getelman told my that it might be that transition layer between a bbw and the hybrid, I told him that it isn't possible at the time, but know I think I might be wrong.

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    Thanks again Peter.
    Last edited by AljuwaiedAK; 10-08-2015 at 05:58 PM.

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    Gorgeous, quite gorgeous. Thanks.

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    See Peter I was saying we should make pictures of those hones togethere and post it as motivation for Chritmas present for our wifes for tiling kitchen. Shame that I do not have decent camera. those samples from new quarry after decent wash look amazing.
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