Originally Posted by
Euclid440
I was watching one of those fishing shows on TV once, and the guy had to cut some bait. He reached into a box and pulls out a big old Coticle, looked like a natural 8X3 at least, You could see the wavy joint line on a close up.
He slaps the stone on a motor cover, BBW up and sharpens a knife as he’s talking and hones the knife on the BBW side, then tosses the stone into a tool box, like it was an old pipe wrench.
Made me cringe.
Nice score, love the old Natural combo stones. Check the “Blue” side. Yours looks like a Rouge de Salam and not the garden variety BBW. You bottom larger bottom two stones, also look like “Rouge” and they may be finisher in their own right.