Quote Originally Posted by FloorPizza View Post
Fantastic post, Bart. I swear, sometimes I get the feeling you can read minds; often you discuss things I've been thinking about but haven't even posted. You nailed a bunch of the stuff I've been wondering about.

I *love* my coticules, and I have really enjoyed honing with them. However, I do have "benign tremor", aka shaky hands. So I have to hone with two hands. As you can imagine, my strokes-per-minute suffers greatly, which can make honing a bit more of a chore than it should be. Throw in the rather slow speed of my rock hard natural combination coticule, and it can *really* make honing tedious. The other coticule that I kept is faster, but it is really old, narrow, and thin. There's about an eighth of an inch of usable stone left on the yellow side. So it doesn't see much use. The other coticule I had I sold when I sold my Shaptons, Norton, and Spydercos. I wish I hadn't sold that stone. It was a yellow coti, slate backed, faster than my natural combination, but it was narrow and I prefer wider hones.

I would *love* to try out what would be considered a "fast coticule" and see if it would take the place of a full set of synthetics, but "fast" is so subjective; how do I call up a vendor and order a "fast coticule"?

Even after reading your Chosera review, it's hard to drop that kind of cash without trying the stone first. Awesome review, btw.

I wish someone around here would start renting out stones. I'd give them enough business to make it worthwhile, that's for sure.
currently you can get 1/2 thick 10k Chosera from HERE
I think you need to drop Dave and e-mail because he does not have them pre-cut i think