Thread: My coticule broke! :(

I think Ardennes was very tactful, and correct, in their response.

I did not buy it from Ardennes Utopian, i got it as an x-mas present from my parents. It´s from a swedish site. The only one that has high grit honing stones :P.. Yeah it seems im stupid to lay it on a chair and you guys are right im lucky it broke the way it did. What kind of glue would you recomend?

You can use almost any glue. I've even used plain old Elmer's white glue, the stuff kids use, to glue hones successfully. You would not want such a water soluble glue on a hone you would soak, but since you don't soak a coticule, even it would work fine. The only kind of glue you need to be especially cautious with is one that expands due to a chemical reaction during the gluing process. An example is Gorilla Glue, which expands upon contact with water. Such a glue will work fine but you need be certain to apply uniform pressure during the clamping. Line each side with a piece of wood and then clamp it all together.

Hmm im thinking about 2 component epoxy glue, seems it would work fine? Thanks for all the info

http://straightrazorpalace.com/advan...-coticule.html

all vintage coticules that i've seen have been glued with water based glue so sooner or later they split in half. slow curing epoxy puts them back in a virtually unbreakable bond.

Ugh, that stinks. Luckily, it's still usable and a lesson is learned. I learned a lesson too. i ruined the dining room table while honing. Wife is making me buy a new one. Looks like I won't be purchasing any shaving stuff for a while.

Hahahaha damn that sucks even more jcsixx

As per Utopian in the first reply, you have benefited from your negligence, you are no worse off for having an extra BBW. I would get a chunky piece of hardwood, router or chisel out a space the size of the stone a few mm deep & set the stone in there, effectively countersinking it.

I don't know what response you were expecting by contacting the vendor, but you have a very weak expectation as to their liability for what you believe to be a defect, when you caused it to break! Yes it is a stone, but it is a soft type of sedimentary varying greatly in hardness to what you might call a 'stone.'

I say you are lucky the coticule itself is not at all damaged, rather only an artificial joint has come undone. Learn from your mistakes.

Scipio I dident contact them to make them pay for it or try to play on their liability, i contacted them to get answers. This is my first and only honing stone, how would i know that its such a delicate stone? But next time i have any kind of troubles similar to this ill get one here and talk to ppl instead to get some info on stuff. So exscuse me for not being so experinced to know that. And thanks for the tip about the getting it into a wood piece, but ill think im going to glue it together and NEVER again set it on a chair.