Thread: La Rose Hone

I am hoping to get to put it to use very soon. When I saw it I was not sure what it was, I thought the tan side could be a coticule and I know it is a natural stone. The other side I was not sure if it was a backer or if this is a two sided hone. It is clearly a two piece stone as you can see the natural contact and the seperation line for the second side.

I will prepare both sides and see what happens.

Thanks for the help.

It looks like a coti with a bit of natural, glued to a bbw. Before the split where it is glued, I can see a bit of natural bbw.

It looks like a winner, enjoy that beautiful coti!

I have this one on the way, I'm intriqued as to what the pink is and looks like.

Here's some eye candy for you. The pink coti on the right is the most pink I've ever seen. Pics really don't do it justice. The reverse side is Les Lat, Hybrid. Also, the Tiger striped on the far left, bottom pic, has pink hues to it.
I have many brownish Pink tiger striped coti's, I'll have to post pics. When I sold them, I always kept the interesting ones for myself.

The middle pic shows the pink hybrid coti (Thanks Jimmy!) both sides next to a regular 8x3 boxed from Howard. Howard always had the best Coticules. That one was typical of what you got. Not sure what vein it is, but it's beautiful. I bought that well before vein names became popular. As a matter of fact, that's my first Coticule. The top pic, far right is a Kosher Dressante...Maurice used to write the vein names on the stones for me....And yes, You can see a hint of an Escher next to the Ducks up top....

If your wondering, my go to Coti is at the bottom, 4th in from the left, awesome all around stone, fast, Dressante, has a small vein in it that does not interfere with honing...It's also got a lot of pink in it....

With Coticules, I love hand held honing. I like the feedback I get. 8x3's are great, wonderful bench hones, but a 6x2 or 7x1.5 can be held while your honing.

Beautiful stone, the hybrid side looks awesome.

Those are some beauties Rich. That pink les lat was unbelievable. The pink side would turn the water black in no time. One of the things I love about coticules is the variation among them. Both in looks and in performance. Some of them, IME, are easy to hone with while others have to be played around with to figure them out. Either fun if you like that sort of thing, or a PITA if you don't. I also like the 5 & 6" stones for hand held honing when I do them that way.

Bayamontate, I bet that pink hone will be a fast cutter. Most with pink in them are IME.

I hope you're right J. I'll post a picture of the other side when I receive it.

Here is La Rose. Jimmy you were correct, it is very fast. It is 5X2 by the way.

The BBW side.