Glad you got that figured out Marshal.
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Glad you got that figured out Marshal.
After reading through everything (again), I just ordered myself a 150x40 La Vienette Coticule.
So I ordered and paid for my Coticule last Thursday hoping it would be shipped the following day.
But I missed out and it looks like it will only be shipped this Friday. :(
Well at least once they do ship it does move fast though. Mine made it the following Monday, I was very impressed. The one that was sent to me was really good and flat so I was able to get right to honing, I'm thinking that Ardennes had lapped it before sending it out. Did you put on the comments that it was for finishing razors? I did and it seems I received a really good finisher.
I've only ever bought one coticule from Ardennes, and they were very helpful. I told them I wanted a large workhorse natural two sided hone for razors, preferably with a cosmetic issue with the hope that it would be cheaper. I told them that I was not in a rush for such a bargain to surface. A few months later, I got exactly that--a 3x10x1 inch beast with a trivial diagonal vein in one corner that looks like a crack but is just a vein variation and it has no effect on the hone's performance. The best part is that it was $150.
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Before you get too excited, I think this was in 2009.
Both of mine from Ardennes were *slightly* out of flat. One looked unlapped, but I think I asked for it that way, the other had a dip that looked like it was used. Nothing a couple minutes lapping couldn't fix
Yeah, they lap pretty easily.
They do lap easy. As I recall I lapped mine as a matter of standard procedure and was done faster than any other hone I've lapped to date. But I think that may also be what bit me in the end. I'll have to dig through my old thread and see just what all I did to it after tearing it up with my worn DMT, but I suspect the coticule didn't like the DMT and wound up with an issue as described earlier in the thread:
Of course the damage can be polished out. But I'm fairly certain after scrubbing the surface of my hone for a good long while with the slurry stone to do just that it's back out of flat. So maybe I'd have been better off to just take a razor to the stone and see what happens? :shrug:
My La Veinette eventually arrived.
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