Thread: Any body have any experience with Coticule?

Coticules are, to me, a hit or miss stone. But they are expensive for what they are when they are of some size and quality.

Someone gave me a deep rock coticule a while ago, unused, for helping them sell off their frictionite collection, and I got another higher dollar coticule from a member on here, disburden. Those are the two that I have that are good. The rest I've gotten rid of.

The deep rock is the size Jimmy mentioned and on the sticker, it says "for the select barber trade". No surprise there, I have no idea what else it would be useful for. My deep rock is actuallly a fairly aggressive stone, and the other one that I bought here is very fine used properly, and can make a bright polish that is keen. They make a fantastic combination.

I keep the deep rock stone because it was a gift, and the other stone because from my experience, I'm afraid it would cost me a lot of money to find another one as fine. I've got no love for the new stones, they make me want to find my japanese stones.

Jimmy is probably right that the best way to use any of the more coarse versions is a few strokes at a time so that they are working the bevel and keeping the edge thin, but not getting all the way to the edge. Generally, that's a good policy with any stone that can't create a good edge due to being a little too coarse.

They are beautiful looking stones, though, I think that's a large part of the draw to them.

What I'm getting at with all of my comments is that they are a stone I'd experiment with after I already had something else that I could rely on. You could have to go through several of them to get one you like, and keep in mind that coticules are like other natural stones, there have been some mined that are not intended for razors, or that are not appropriate.