Thread: Different styles of BBW/Coti

It looks like a vintage combo, when they were gluing BBW to the Coti's, I'm no expert, but maybe Utopian may know, you could contact Rob Celis at Ardennes, he's a member here, but is extremely busy lately, so he hasn't been on in a while...
Rich

It was my grandfathers, I saved it from my stepfather he doesn't use stones anymore and had it tossed in a drawer with all sorts of sandpapers and stones of stuff... it was a mess. This stone was flattened(ish) on a heavy grit belt sander at some time. For years I have seen this thing just floating around in that drawer. After a while, seeing pics of coticules here, I started getting excited that it may well be a coticule. I asked if I may have it and he gave me the stones I was interested in. After lapping it I was all giddy After posting it in a thread here to confirm my thoughts I was very happy to have saved this from obscurity.

Now I want to get another one just so I don't wear this one out using it all the time

I understand. Hang on to it. The blue side will create a purple slurry and the yellow side is like a dull white slurry, more or less. It's quite versatile, works good when you use a slurry stone. I'm probably telling you what you already know...Rich

Originally Posted by DwarvenChef

Now I want to get another one just so I don't wear this one out using it all the time

By all means get another one ..... or more... but you would have to do a heap of honing to wear that yellow out. My guess is you could use it your whole life and pass it on to your grand kids to use after you're gone. Look at the stone where the blue meets the yellow. If there is a glue joint you can see it with a magnifying glass. From the photo it looks like a natural but it can be deceiving because they left blue on the underside sometimes and then glued a thicker blue on anyway.