Thread: back from belgium...

Originally Posted by mikael86

That's great. The stones looks awesome

Hey I Kinda Jumped The Gun " I Haven't Even Introduced Myself Yet"" We,ll Get To That Soon,, But Your Stones Were Absolutey Amazing To Me,,, Heres My Reply To Utopian;;;;;; Every Razor Must Get Stoned,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Ha Now That Was Funny!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by brightred

i had no objection when my wife suggested that we might spend a couple of weeks in belgium. she didn't know...

well, of course we made a small detour to ardennes coticules. although we did not announce our visit, we were immediately invited on a tour through the workshops. most interesting! then the gentleman told us to go and see the quarry, take a stone or two there, no problem. as you can imagine i was delighted. after buying a "la dressante" and a "les myrtilles" bout i spent an hour in the quarry walking around, examining pieces of rock and finally chose a few pieces i wanted to take home. no problem, said the friendly caterpillar-driver, certainly knowing that usable stones can't be picked up like daisies on a meadow.

anyway, the following days i was on the lookout for more stones (HAD!), since i had no idea when i'll be in belgium again. i was very lucky when i met a most knowledgable person, who, after i had asked for "special" stones, disappeared in the back of the house and minutes later presented some monstrous stones from closed mines. the price was right and i got weak.

my suitcase was a few kilos heavier on our way back home. on the picture below you see the aftermath of a belgian holiday paired with mental weakness: a 10" natural combo monster from the old rock mine, a dressante, two veinettes, a myrtilles bout and some smaller stones. the bout in the front is a piece of coticule i picked up in the quarry. i lapped it and honed a razor on it. quite promising, i'll know more tomorrow morning. so far i have only shaved off the veinette. good shave!

and yes, i know, one needs only one small stone and one razor... my wife told me.

regards,
hans



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aaaaawwwwwwww dang...... I guess I have to go to Belgium now, I can feel my HAD starting to rage.

Originally Posted by Utopian

No, no, no...

You need to explain to your wife the concept of resting an edge. The steel of each razor needs to rest at least 2 weeks. For that reason you need a minimal rotation of 14 razors.

And, of course, each razor needs its own dedicated hone!

We need some sort of webpage dedicated to explaining concepts like this to doubting wives.

Maybe you should write an essay titled the marriage of stone and steel or something on those lines. Memoirs of beards and long lost hones.

I just asked my wife if we can go to Belgium, she said no problem.
What is the weight limit on luggage? LOL

Originally Posted by sidmind

I just asked my wife if we can go to Belgium, she said no problem.
What is the weight limit on luggage? LOL

50 lbs or 23 kg

Originally Posted by brightred

i had no objection when my wife suggested that we might spend a couple of weeks in belgium. she didn't know...

well, of course we made a small detour to ardennes coticules. although we did not announce our visit, we were immediately invited on a tour through the workshops. most interesting! then the gentleman told us to go and see the quarry, take a stone or two there, no problem. as you can imagine i was delighted. after buying a "la dressante" and a "les myrtilles" bout i spent an hour in the quarry walking around, examining pieces of rock and finally chose a few pieces i wanted to take home. no problem, said the friendly caterpillar-driver, certainly knowing that usable stones can't be picked up like daisies on a meadow.

anyway, the following days i was on the lookout for more stones (HAD!), since i had no idea when i'll be in belgium again. i was very lucky when i met a most knowledgable person, who, after i had asked for "special" stones, disappeared in the back of the house and minutes later presented some monstrous stones from closed mines. the price was right and i got weak.

my suitcase was a few kilos heavier on our way back home. on the picture below you see the aftermath of a belgian holiday paired with mental weakness: a 10" natural combo monster from the old rock mine, a dressante, two veinettes, a myrtilles bout and some smaller stones. the bout in the front is a piece of coticule i picked up in the quarry. i lapped it and honed a razor on it. quite promising, i'll know more tomorrow morning. so far i have only shaved off the veinette. good shave!

and yes, i know, one needs only one small stone and one razor... my wife told me.

regards,
hans



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Nice Stones Hans,

Seems to be that there are some brothers and sisters from that old lot ;-) let us know how your tanned one behaves....and i would appreciate some additional pics of the tanned one....does youres shows the same thickness around 30 mm ? The coticule part is very meaty, around 18-20mm

I really like mine...here are some pics...

That is a truly productive trip. Congratulations on the new acquisitions!

thank you all for your kind comments!

being a jnat user, coticules are new to me. therefore i am not able to tell you much about the performance of these stones as i have nothing to compare them to. however, the shave off the veinette was very good, and to my big surprise, the razor i honed on the stone i picked up in the quarry shaved equally well, pretty close and smooth!

doorsch: when i tried to gather some information about the old rock mine, i stumbled over this thread. indeed, these stones, including yours, seem to be siblings. mine had the same pencil writing on top, and there was still some old paper sticking to one side. my stone measures 253 x 64 x 27 mm (roughly 10 x 2.5 x 1 inches). some pictures below, first picture shows stone wet.

regards,
hans

It Looks like Maureice was in and his private stash surprisingly still has some Old Rock left. There were many of them in it.
Well done. Just the experience is worthwile. I am looking forward for new hones from their ner pit.

Some beautiful stones. Man, I'll be hitting up Belgium hopefully next year. You know one can never have too many coticules.