Thread: Any body have any experience with Coticule?

A google search for "Coticule honing" will yield a few good videos and a website that is now an archive of all that a lot of good people learned about using a Coticule to sharpen razors. These folks did a lot of honing and other than the idea some there suggest that any Coticule is a winner..not! Some are not finishers and some are just plan butcher knife tools.The information made me a better hone person on any rock!
YMMV but try anyway!
~Richard

The right corticle ROCKS. It is its own animal . I found that some research on the one mine left in Belgium and contacted then directly . Its a unique animal. I find that rotating it 180* gives different results, no two are the same.But when you figure yours out, its a one stop shop hone. You can change the grit with slurry,lack there of,.... or water,or dry... This is a fact if you get one and you learn it, you will not part with it till you die, it will be the next escher, mark my words within the next century. Things to look for ,saw marks, concentration of garnets, amount of white to blue corticle .not a glued version of two pieces. This can be yours call the one company that mines these. Plus the fact that the Romans as in the Roman Legion used this same type of rock to shave their faces and sharpen their weapons. Italians as an ethnicity have a thick coarse hair, an they had to be clean shaven for duty, put that in a blender of facts and choose what works best for you.