Thread: Why A Coticule?

I guess you guys never heard of the famous "colossal coticule".

You can find ridiculously cheap coticules at flea markets if you persist enough/are lucky. I've never paid more than €20 for one and usually much less.

Yeah my answer to the question of "why a coticule?", is that I found one at an antique store for less that I'd spent on my Nortons. Now fast forward five months, I've sold, and rebought the Nortons..Go figure. My coticule sits there waiting patiently for it's 40 seconds of fame at the end of a synthetic progression now. But I really think that's it's best purpose. It just took me a while to get to that conclusion. Five months of dilucotting myself into oblivion, and pounding my head on the table. Thank goodness for synthetics. But they'll never have the purist's vote.

It's a preference thing. Some guys like to hone on Synethic stones, others synethic lapping film after a DMT1200 bevel setting, other guys only use natural stones in a progression of 10 hones or so...

Others out there like Coticules and invest in a few of them to keep for a life time.
For someone learning to hone I like to recommend the Norton 4/8K as I think it's easier to pick up to reach the edge you want to receive. After that you can branch off to romantic natural stones...etc.

I like Coticules and I use mine all the time but I learned on other hones first...

Originally Posted by Jimbo7

Just my opinion, but an 8x3 is obscenely large for a coticule. Unnecessarily large. Sure I guess it'd be nice to have a rock that big, but it's by no means necessary.

You do know "That Size Really does matter"

** ducks back out the door***

Pfffft...that was the sound of coffee spraying everywhere...lol..thanks Glen.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

You do know "That Size Really does matter"

** ducks back out the door***

Are you talking about BBW? That's not really my thing, but to each his own I guess.

I paid $100 for a 40x150 coti and slurry stone. I went with it because I was intrigued with the idea that one stone could take me from bevel setting to finish. So far I've only used it to refresh blades with an established bevel so I guess I won't know if mine is capable of beginning to end blade work until I try to restore something from ebay or the antique store. Even if it's not I'm betting I'll never need anything more than a 400/1000 combo stone if I decide to one day hone a chipped or uneven blade. So the cost seems reasonable enough to me. And I routinely shave with only stropping after the coti - no pastes needed IMO.

Some times ago coticule were cheap, look at the price for half a dozen! but that in 1898!

Originally Posted by Martin103

Some times ago coticule were cheap, look at the price for half a dozen! but that in 1898!

I'm sick of this 21st century price gouging! 19th century pricing is where it's at!