Thread: What is a hybrid coticule?

Is it strange that after 2000 years or more of use in sharpening this is the first I've ever heard of these kinds of coticules? Or have I just not been paying attention?

James.

BUT WHAT ACTUALLY IS IT?

I can not seem to get a clear answer anywhere. Yes, I appreciate it is grey and yellow marbled and in lieu of BBW, but what is its geological composition?

It is a hybrid of coticule and ????????

Originally Posted by Scipio

BUT WHAT ACTUALLY IS IT?

I can not seem to get a clear answer anywhere. Yes, I appreciate it is grey and yellow marbled and in lieu of BBW, but what is its geological composition?

It is a hybrid of coticule and ????????

Actually, the hybrid is not a mix of yellow coticule and BBW. It exists between two layers of yellow coticule and is a yellow/brown marble mixture. I don't know the physical makeup; I'm sure somebody else can chime in on that.

Here are some photos of a hybrid:

http://www.coticule.be/the-cafeteria/topic/820.html

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Is it strange that after 2000 years or more of use in sharpening this is the first I've ever heard of these kinds of coticules? Or have I just not been paying attention?

James.

I wouldn't worry about it. Being more than 2000 years old, you would naturally have grown weary long ago of keeping up with all these newfangled hones

One begins to wonder if this hybrid layer might be an amalgam of some type of resin and the barrels and barrels of dried coticule sludge the the finishers have accumlated over the years, particularly since no "eureka" statement has come forth saying that a new rock, a geological marvel, has just been discovered by spelunkers in Belgium.

It rubs the lotion on it's skin, It does this whenever it's told, or it get's the hose again.

Originally Posted by zib

It rubs the lotion on it's skin, It does this whenever it's told, or it get's the hose again.

On mine, it's slow, but seems to offer a slightly sharper edge than the regular side. I'm experimenting w/ it as a prepolisher before my new Oozuku.

Glen beat me to it.
Mine is pretty, that's about it. If it wasn't for the recent value hike I would probably have used it in a fountain so it was always wet.
Man, if I were better with paint shop I would over lay a prius with my hybrid and reshape it a little.

Originally Posted by Bruce

One begins to wonder if this hybrid layer might be an amalgam of some type of resin and the barrels and barrels of dried coticule sludge the the finishers have accumlated over the years, particularly since no "eureka" statement has come forth saying that a new rock, a geological marvel, has just been discovered by spelunkers in Belgium.

It would be an interesting experiment:
capture all the slurry that is created when cutting up coticules and blue stones, let it dry out and mix it with norton style resin.

The Hybrid side is usually harder than the other side and a lot slower but polishes fine.