Thread: Belgian Coticules

I purchased my coticule from a Dutch site that included a fragment of the same stone to be used as a Nogura stone. They were extremely helpful, and if you contact them they might be able to help.

I'm also waiting on delivery of a Norton 4k/8k from the US. Not many sites supplying Nortons will ship to UK, and those that do tend to be expensive. However, some of them have the full range of Nortons, flattening stones, and their equivalent to Nogura stones for the higher grits. I don't have any of the links to hand, but I found those sites by googling "norton 4k 8k" and wading through the results.

I decided on getting a Norton because developing my honing skills is something that interests me. But if you have the razor honed by one of the guys on here, then from what I understand in theory you can rely on various pastes, the coticule, and great stropping to keep the edge for a long time.

Mark

Thanks, Mark. I've seen that site before - it's pretty good. Only problem here is that I already have the coticules, so additional ones would be a waste for me right now. I know I can get it from the US site posted by alexaggie, but (although I've got nothing against buying from the US), it's just the fear of customs taxing us for anything that comes in and longer delivery times...

You can get the Norton 4k/8k from a UK site (albeit at a UK price too ). Here are a few sites after a bit of digging:

http://www.rutlands.co.uk/cgi-bin/psProdDet.cgi/NCWS3
http://shop.johnlloydfinefurniture.co.uk/ - look under Manufacturers for 'Norton'

Originally Posted by majurey

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Is this a Nagura stone as well, or is it some variation of it?

http://www.rutlands.co.uk/cgi-bin/psProdDet.cgi/39361

Nice research, rum! I couldn't for the life of me find a UK site selling Nortons. See what you mean about the price though. For the price of the Norton 4k/8k on that site I'm getting the 4k/8k, a Norton flattening stone, and international p&p!

The prep stone on that site sounds like it does the same thing as a Nagura in principle. Couldn't comment on how well it does it though.

(And I'm really hoping that customs let that one through without VAT!)

Cheers
Mark

Originally Posted by majurey

Nice research, rum! I couldn't for the life of me find a UK site selling Nortons. See what you mean about the price though. For the price of the Norton 4k/8k on that site I'm getting the 4k/8k, a Norton flattening stone, and international p&p!

Thanks, always happy to help out where possible (yippee! I'm a senior member now!).
Prices are all part of the rip-off Britain culture around here. No doubt our American friends will have heard of this by now.

The prep stone on that site sounds like it does the same thing as a Nagura in principle. Couldn't comment on how well it does it though.

Yep, seems a lot more than that US site though and postage is £6!!!

(And I'm really hoping that customs let that one through without VAT!)

You should be so lucky!

Try www.japanwoodworker.com for Nagura stones, and the Kitayama 12000 grit stone Lynn referred to.

Originally Posted by convair580

Try www.japanwoodworker.com for Nagura stones, and the Kitayama 12000 grit stone Lynn referred to.

The 10000k stone sold by axminster for £37 is supposedly the same as the kitayama 12k (sometimes this same stone sold as 8K) as they are both made by matsunaga, who also make the sun tiger and king stones. Also leasingly the stone sells in the US for around $70, so we are not being ripped off for once.

Try Axminster power tools, they stock nagura stones for £1.40 I think.

PuFF

That's it! www.axminster.co.uk is the site - thank you PuFF!!

Keep in mind that a Nogura stone is a specific stone which is very soft actually its like chalk and is designed to work with the 12K Japanese stones. The similar stones they sell for coticules are different, much harder like the coticules themselves. I'm not sure the nogura would work on a coticule. I've actually tried them and found no difference. With the 12 K yes the coticule no.