Thread: Ardennes coticule select

Email Maurice at Ardennes and ask for what you want.
from what I've seen in the past year though, they are mostly getting La Grise stones now and they are usually softer than other veins.

Fwiw I dont compare hardness with fineness though. Some of the best finishers I have ever used were softer than other stones.

Enjoy!

I have a 75x200 (8" x 3" to us metrically challenged) natural combo. I bought it about six years ago; long before Ardennes was classifying stones by hardness. While I don't have an extensive coticule collection, I do have one that makes slurry on its own it's so soft. The 8x3 is toward the other end of the spectrum. It's more like glass. A great polisher and a great all around stone when coupled with a slurry stone. Instead of the creamy chalky look and feel of my softer coticules, it looks like this close up:


The coticule side is more of an yellow/olive color.

It seems like the larger stones are a bit harder to come by more so than they used to be?

ChrisL

Originally Posted by ChrisL

I have a 75x200 (8" x 3" to us metrically challenged) natural combo. I bought it about six years ago; long before Ardennes was classifying stones by hardness. While I don't have an extensive coticule collection, I do have one that makes slurry on its own it's so soft. The 8x3 is toward the other end of the spectrum. It's more like glass. A great polisher and a great all around stone when coupled with a slurry stone. Instead of the creamy chalky look and feel of my softer coticules, it looks like this close up:


The coticule side is more of an yellow/olive color.

It seems like the larger stones are a bit harder to come by more so than they used to be?

ChrisL

Hey Chris I think your right they are harder to come by. I was looking for something from the les latneuses layer (pretty impossible I know) or la dressante which surprisingly (to me anyway) seems hard to find to!

Originally Posted by Disburden

Email Maurice at Ardennes and ask for what you want.
from what I've seen in the past year though, they are mostly getting La Grise stones now and they are usually softer than other veins.

Fwiw I dont compare hardness with fineness though. Some of the best finishers I have ever used were softer than other stones.

Enjoy!

I'll try him again and see what he has.........

Pardon my obvious ignorance (as I live in Belgium) but how should I go about to get one of these stones? Who do I contact?

Originally Posted by tburm

Pardon my obvious ignorance (as I live in Belgium) but how should I go about to get one of these stones? Who do I contact?

http://www.ardennes-coticule.be/en/

Thanks! Went ahead and ordered a BBW