Thread: Is this a natural two sided couticle

That one is confusing. The side view could be either natural or synthetic.
The inscription does not seem stamped but rather scratched in.
The description, Belgium blue & white, I have never heard before.

Once you receive it lap it and post some pics.

could be natural combo. Pics not clean enough to be sure. let us know when you got it.

when ever it arrives I will lap it and post pictures it will be into the new year with the way post is about here just now

I would love to see pics of it cleaned up. I've never seen a Swaty like that either. Looks like something is carved in after the word Swaty as well, I can't make it out..Is it a Roman Numeral II ? Maybe someone messing around?

I look forward to the cleaned up pics too. If it weren't for the Swaty marking I'd say probably natural. The inscription looks a little crude though, so zib could well be right.

The Swatyn is a synthetic barber hone that is extremely fine and hard. I've got one but can't take a picture of it right now. It is longer and narrower than a Swaty--maybe 7"x1.5" but that's just a guess. It looks nothing like a Swaty under the microscope and I highly doubt the hone had anything to do with the Swaty company.

May be my suspicious nature, but it sounds like someone was trying to ride the coattails both of Swaty and of coticules. They sure got in all the key search terms, like Belgian and the letters s-w-a-t-y.

Is there any history of people mining coticules and carving their brands into them?

My two-sided Frictionite has a very uneven, natural-looking margin between the two grits.