Thread: Hone of the Day

Just received this coticule today. Modern coticule glued to Belgian blue. It surprisingly is a very hard coticule. I confirmed this by trying to raise slurry with a la Verte slurry stone which is notoriously hard.

Took my ol' reliable beater razor and dulled it on the corner of the 5k pro. Reset the edge with the 5k pro and then proceeded to water only laps on the coticule.

Shave test will come later but preliminary tests are all checking out. Now for the one that matters..

Shave was a little prickly, chocked it up to the 5k edge being as refined as a 5k edge gets but still not a straight edge. Coticule with water was too slow to pick up the slack. Dropped to 5k - 15 laps on the 10k (thanks for the tip Glen ) and about 75 on this slow fine coticule. After selling my finest coticule to HARRYWALLY I was worried I'd have to search 3 more years for another like it. While this one doesn't look as pretty it's very close in edge performance to me anyways.

When you buy a coticule sight unseen it's like buying a lottery ticket. You could get a paper weight, a coarse stone or fine one.. it's nice to luck out. After many sight unseen duds and reading marshals trials and tribulations with his rock it makes me happy to have such an easy to work with straight forward piece of Belgium.