Thread: Two New Naturals

These kinda fell into my lap this last week. A salmon/pinkish coticule (with a stamp) and another with very uniform color. Both are natural combos. The first is 4 x 2 x just under 7/8 and the second is 7 x 1 9/16 x just over 5/8. I haven't used either yet but I can't stop looking at them and touching them.

You and littlesiverbladefromwales, you guys just cant keep from touching your rocks! I hope you are not doing it publicly!

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

I hope you are not doing it publicly!

Nope, I'm alone. I have to show them off here because my wife just looks at me like 'So what' and shakes her head. And then follows that with 'Are you going to sell them?'

Originally Posted by Sandcounty

Nope, I'm alone. I have to show them off here because my wife just looks at me like 'So what' and shakes her head. And then follows that with 'Are you going to sell them?'

Mine too
As he rubs his coticule...................

My salmon-pinkish coticule (bought at Ardennes Coticule) is my most used hone. It's an incredibly fast cutter. I use it primarilly with slurry for removing small nicks on razors and creating wicked edges on woodworking tools, but when used with water only it can also finalize a razor with a great shaving edge. If I could only keep one hone, it would be that one, and it would be all I really need to hone a razor from scratch to shavereadiness. Just hone on the slurry till the edge is there and then gradually dilute the slurry to plain water. Strop, lather up and shave.
What a hone.
I hope yours is every bit as fine.

Bart.

That are two very good looking stones you got there!
Congratulations with the find!

Could you tell me if the Salmon/pink stone is a harder or a more softer stone?

I've got a salmon pink coticule and I love it. If I could only have one hone, this would be it because it is so flexible.

I agree with Bart it's a fast cutter with slurry and puts a great edge with just water.

My slurry stone is the light creamy white colour and the salmon pink coticule is the harder stone of the two.

It's only a small hone 125mm x 40mm but sometimes great things come in small packages.

I've got a salmon colored coticule as well and mine is also a fast cutter. I'm hard pressed to say if it's harder or softer, it just seems different. I suppose it's softer in the sense that it is very fast to release it's own slurry.

Originally Posted by ArdennesCoticule

Could you tell me if the Salmon/pink stone is a harder or a more softer stone?

I was finally able to lap and use this stone a little bit tonight. I worked up a slurry with a slurry stone that is very light in color. The resulting slurry was also very light in color. So, I think that the Salmon stone is hard. Or, it is at least harder than my slurry stone. As far as how it performed, I'm not sure yet - still learning.

Originally Posted by Sandcounty

I was finally able to lap and use this stone a little bit tonight. I worked up a slurry with a slurry stone that is very light in color. The resulting slurry was also very light in color. So, I think that the Salmon stone is hard. Or, it is at least harder than my slurry stone. As far as how it performed, I'm not sure yet - still learning.

Did the slurry turn grey (from metal partcles) within a few strokes? Or did discoloration appear only after extended honing. In my experience that's really a good marker for the speed of a coticule.

As for some unsolicited, but well meant advice :
If you need speed (depending on what you're doing), there's a trick I have found to speed up hard and slow coticules a bit. Use a dry DMT on a dry Coticule to create a smal amount on coticule dust on top of it. Add a few drops of water and starts mixing it all up with your slurry stone. You' ll get a decent layer of dense slurry. Add more water if needed and hone away. It has never turned a slow coticule up to speed with a fast one for me, but it does make a big difference.
Remember that slurry on a coticule doesn't produce the keenest of edges. You really need to refine it further before you can finish on the coticule with water only. Plenty of options for doing that.

Bart.