Thread: Coticule, Tam and Norton 8k

well i havent heard any complaints from couticle owners anywhere, some prefer to shave right off the hone stropping of course some use cromo afterwards, i guess it is all preference, i have read of someone finisning on a 16 k shapton then using their couticle after that. you cant go wrong with a couticle very good hone and like jimmy had said if you could only have 1 hone it would be a couticle, my barber in his mid 70s now has only used carborundum hones and barber hones in his 50 + years of barbering, he told me that is all you really need to produce a great shaving edge, but the old barbers have a way with a strop like no others ive ever seen. he probably kept his pasted strop hidden from view

I just received this reply from Rob at Ardennes Coticule:




Hi Simon,

We can't determine the exact hardness off a Coticule stone but we do know which Coticule layer is more soft or more hard.
If you like a more harder stone, just type it in the text box at the check out and we will send you a stone with preferred hardness.

Thanks,
Rob Celis
Ardennes Coticule



Now you can't top that for sevice, and this was on a Sunday!