Thread: Frictionites - other than #00s

Originally Posted by roughkype

Interesting! What are the dimensions on those Frictionites?

The big ones are 2 1/2 x 8 inches, and the smaller #00 is 2.25x4.5 inches. The super punjab is 2x4 inches.

Oh man i've been waiting to see his fabled stack o' stones for a while and this did not disappoint!!

James - you certainly know the owner of the stones. If you're not sure who it is, woodworking and all of the talk about sypdercos should tip you off.

Yep! That belgian looks sweet too. Is it glued?

I think it is, but it is not nearly as obvious that it's glued as the new ones are. (they have a pore filling kind of grainy looking glue). The line on this one is sort of obscured and uneven, but the back doesn't seem like belgian blue. It looks like slate, but i'm not sure I looked close enough to be sure. I was too jacked up about the yellow side to check the label side out much, other than to make a glance at the transition line and be confused why it looked like a natural combo but the back didn't look quite as much like one.

Not that it matters, but I remembered wrong about the belgian combo, it's a natural combo. It's got a very plain side profile look in the blue, like slate, but the trademark sort of embedded strawberry seed look on the surface of the blue side of the hone. The label covers most of the blue side, though, and I don't want to lose the label so I'll not ever use the blue side.

The line on one side where the blue and yellow meet is somewhat straight and on the other side very wavy.

I would think the deep rock is bbw on the label side. I've had a couple and that is what they were. Same with a couple of 'Old Rock' labeled stones that have come and gone. One natural and the other glued. It is interesting that when I bought a few coticules from barbers in the 1980s .... individual barbers .... they all told me that the yellow side was the side to hone on. The other side was only for reinforcement.

When I first got Deep Rock and Old Rock labeled cotis that was proved by the glued label on the bbw side. I've been led to understand that it is only in the last decade or so that the bbw has been recognized as a viable hone. I also read that there are different grades of bbw and that some of it is only suitable for paving stones or building blocks. At least that is what I've read. It was on the internet so it must be true.