Thread: Belgian Coticule stone info (Videos & pics)

Thanks Joel! Great links!

Thanks for those links! I love the belgian stones, they're just beautiful.

The guy in the honing video puts quite a lot of pressure when he's honing, thats something I haven't seen before. Does anyone else out there use this much pressure?

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That guy in the vid is our very own Alex (LX_Emergency)

Originally Posted by jalapeno_peppah

Thanks for those links! I love the belgian stones, they're just beautiful.

The guy in the honing video puts quite a lot of pressure when he's honing, thats something I haven't seen before. Does anyone else out there use this much pressure?

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Well.....yeah. I do

Since it's my video.

Since I made that I've updated my arsenal with a larger coticule and a blue as well.

I put that much pressure on it to establish a bevel, with plenty of slurry it's very easy with a yellow. Once the bevel is established I easy up though.

Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

I put that much pressure on it to establish a bevel, with plenty of slurry it's very easy with a yellow. Once the bevel is established I easy up though.

Alex, I know you use the coticule as an all-round hone more than most here, but I'm curious, do you do major bevel work on the coticule? Do you use it for example to put a totally new bevel on an ebay junker with microchips, bad steel, etc.? Or just on razors in relatively good shape? Do you have a low-grit hone, or do you manage completely on just belgians?

I do have a low grit hone as well. Nowadays I use that mostly for bevels. But At the time I was making the video (and in that video) I only used the yellow. Period.

It took a little more time but worked just fine. Just get plenty of slurry going and it's actually quite a fast little stone.

Alex, thanks for the video!

I've been kind of drawn towards natrual stones either a Japanese or a coticule so it was quite intresting to watch it. I guess I missed the size of the coticule you used, 1.5 inch wide(?) and how long is it?

Good question. I'd say somewhere aroun 3 inches? 3-4 inches or something. And yeah, between 1-2 inches wide. It's a little bit of an irregular form but it works excellent.

Hi Alex!

Yeah, thanks for the great video! I wasn't even aware of the fact it is you in the video, I just realized this by now, hope you don't mind that I posted your video.

Apparently the Coticule industry goes along way back in time. I've been told that the 'back in the days' the Romans loved the Coticule stones and
even had about 2000 permanent slaves to mine the stones for them.

Recently I bought an old 47 page booklet about the Coticule honing stone industry, I don't know how your French is but let me know if your interested.

I'm still a newbie and use a natural Coticule combo stone (50x200mm). Although until now I haven't been able to get completely satisfactory results,
I must say that the edges get better every time. At the moment I'm wrestling with my Filharmonica #13.


All the best,

PS: How's the Cade?