Thread: La Dressante Au Blue

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

No not magnified it's about an inch across. It comes from a deposit in Roxbury Conn. A locality called Green's farm. You can go there and mine the stuff yourself and have enough garnets to, well, to do anything you want with them.

Actually they grind those up for garnet paper.

if this is the case how in the world you could use that stone sharpening straight razor.
i thought you have magnified or done something to it.
it was my first time i have seen so large Garnet in sharpening stone.

My neighbor in the Adirondacks, now deceased, used to carry a big garnet like that in his pocket all the time. It came from down the road a piece.. The Barton Mines in North River, N.Y.

Originally Posted by Gunner777

Got the La Dressante Au Blue yesterday and worked on a couple of razors. Cuts darn good with water and the BBW side is also very very useful. It's a nice looking stone.

ask bart if he could identify this layer. it does'nt look like a la drassante au blue to me. i have had two of these. i may be wrong. . it looks like a la vainette to me what ever it is it's nice looking coticule.
gary

looking at the side veiw it could even be a la patite blanch. is there a lighter kind of purple haze running along where the blue a cream join?

Thanks Gary--I'm just going by what Jarrod said I'm no expert. It sure works the way I wanted one to:-) It could be a Le Vainette?????

I've got a La Veinette and it is a creamy pale color. No blue veins but it was sold as a kosher. The longer one in the top photo. I sold the tiger stripe. They say the La Veinette is a fast cutter but mine is not. Good finisher/polisher though. I confess I've never used it with slurry. I'll have to give that a try.

this is la drassante au blue. note how they join.

also notice how the surface is differant.

i'm very confident that is not what he says . not that it matter s but at least you may find out which layer it is . i would say it s either la patite blanch or la vainette.

gary

Gary it sure does look different. Think I'll go look at some pics with the spider veins in it.

How about this La Veinette looks like mine--yes?

But then again--- Le Dressante Mine is much closer to this color

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I've got a La Veinette and it is a creamy pale color. No blue veins but it was sold as a kosher. The longer one in the top photo. I sold the tiger stripe. They say the La Veinette is a fast cutter but mine is not. Good finisher/polisher though. I confess I've never used it with slurry. I'll have to give that a try.

is the top one a combo or on slate base?
gary

i have all three i like them all but if i had to choose one it would be a la vainette. your yellow side should cut pritty well with slurry and on water should feel like honing on glass. also should have a nice sound in use which is hard to explain but a sound like faint cutting or slicing
gary

Originally Posted by tok

Hmm, looking at the top, it looks a bit like la Veinette to me (I have a la Veinette and my slurry stone is said to be la Dressante au blue, and judging from that… well, my (said to be; I´m not sure) la dressante au blue has those little white spots and is of a more greenish color. I´d suggest looking through the coticule-vault and comparing looks)… How do the sides look?

Regards,
tok

Where is this coticule-vault? In the wiki?