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Thread: Blue Spotted Coticule
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06-26-2013, 03:06 PM #11
Think its more insidious than any of the answers given already. You have to remember that these are 'natural' stones and as such you need to look back to the time when they were formed. Yes, the Jurassic! And as sedimentary rocks they're an accumulation of material that settled into it. Yes, prehistoric Larva!!
Best if you don't keep them in your sleeping area!
Not good!
( you lapped it didn't you! You exposed a new sediment layer!)Last edited by Johnus; 06-26-2013 at 03:08 PM.
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06-26-2013, 04:21 PM #12
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Thanked: 3164The vast majority are, to all intents and purposes, non-porous. However people who have made an extensive research of them (precious few) like Bart, formerly of Coticule.be, has identified at least two porous types, one only slightly porous, one more so.
Also on other coticule-worship sites like Artisan Shaving, there are examples of coticules getting stained. One I recall released something (or the razor that was being honed had a peculiar type of steel, or the water was acidic, or - something!) that resulted in copious rust-brown slurry that left the coticule stained - only lapping removed the stain.
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Neil
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06-26-2013, 04:25 PM #13
Yes, that's what they want you to do. They know you can't resist. Then when you start honing the gas comes out and the following morning you're turned into some extraterrestrial zombie wandering the city trying to spread the contagion. Then they come and take over and take your straight razors away probably led by this Obama guy.
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06-26-2013, 04:48 PM #14
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06-26-2013, 05:54 PM #15
Plenty of people resurrecting zombie threads every now and again. Such as the most recent I noticed where a guy was giving the OP honing advice on a thread posted 4 years ago ......
BTW, if you think blue spots is a problem ....... http://straightrazorpalace.com/advan...light=bubblingLast edited by JimmyHAD; 06-26-2013 at 05:58 PM.
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06-30-2013, 04:33 PM #16
Very strange, but I have seen weirder things happen. Like the other guys said, just try to use the hone and see what happens. If you like the edge then that's all that matters. I would also hone a razor on a stone you know the grit level of and then use this stone and compare the very edge of the razor. When I say compare the edge I do not mean the bevel.