It's a coticule (glued to BBW base) ... I have plenty and I always flattened by using a diamond plate.
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It's a coticule (glued to BBW base) ... I have plenty and I always flattened by using a diamond plate.
Just out of interest, how can you tell it's a BBW base?
I was told when I bought mine that it was backed with slate, is there any chance it's not slate but actually BBW.
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Sandpaper on a kitchen worktop work very well.
Looks like it is a slate backing, not a Belgian blue: those are darker gray blue.
I lapped mine with a 400 plate then smoothed with slurry stone
Nice find. If you got that along with other stuff for $6 then you basically stole that stone. It's always nice to get deals like that.
Yes you might be right... Never realised it could be a slate backing. All mine are vintage ones so BBW. So this means it is probably not very old. In this case the slate side has obviously seen some action . I always thought the only purpose was to give the coticule side a certain reinforcement and wasn't meant for honing but I may be wrong.
I have 2 coticules that are glued to a Rouge de Salm.
I'm pretty sure the slate backing is just to reinforce the coticule and not meant to be used for honing.
Slightly off topic but this morning I took my sharpest synth edge and did 40 laps with just water on my coti, I was going let it auto slurry, but I wasn't using pressure so it didn't.
The idea was to see how much of a finisher my Coti was good for.
The razor was laser sharp before and finished with a 12k Naniwa, 40 x strokes no pressure with the coti, 60 cotton and 100 Buffalo. It treetops, passes the HHT and is as sharp as it was but hopefully smoother, tomorrows shave will tell.