Thread: Hone Help

Originally Posted by Zee

Hey guys, took a while for me to find my own post. I have been using an old barbers hone, not coticle, but the man i borrowed the hone from let me use his coticle ( how do you spell that damn word) to sharpen my razors once. So i have learned on a belgian yellow. Id really like to walk into an antique store and find one, just hasnt happened yet. Thanks for everyones help.

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It's "Coticule". Good luck finding one, Sometimes you get lucky. Check our classifieds here, or you can go to Ardennes web site. They sell to the general public..There are also numerous vendors that sell them.

Rich

If you do get one go for a 6x2 or if you have the extra $ an 8x2 or 8x3. A vintage 5x2 or 2 1/2 is cool too IME. Smaller stones are good but take longer ......i.e. more strokes. If you get it from a vendor a slurry stone, sometimes called a cotigura, is good to have as well. If not that than a DMT credit card sized diamond plate in coarse (325) grit to make slurry.

If you are intersted in Coticules, look at coticule.be.

This site doesn´t sell coticules, but it is stuffed with information about them.

The best way to get a good coticule is contacting the guys at ardennes coticule:

Ardennes Coticule - Producer of the Coticule whetstone!

I don´t buy the "vintage is better" statement in this case. All of them are about 480 Million years old.

Regards,
tok