Favourite Stone Picture Thread

[StraightRazorDave]

Hey all,

So I thought it would be a nice idea to have a thread dedicated to showing off your favourite stone. There's one condition though, a picture is necessary!! I must admit to browsing through SRP many times to just look for pictures of stones. I know...I have a problem. It doesn't matter why it's your favourite (favourite to hone on, prettiest, leaves the best edge, smells the greatest, who cares!).

So to start it off, here's my favourite stone. It's a 8"x2" coticule I got from Howard several months back. I love it because it's not only a beautiful stone, but I love the feeling I get while sliding a razor across it and the edges it produces leaves me very happy. Oh, and I wasn't joking about the favourite stone may be the one that smells the greatest, because I LOVE the smell of my coticule wet.

And it spirit of the "I'll show you mine if you show me your's" thread, here's mine, now show me your's!

[ChrisL]

My 150-200 year old vintage stamped natural combo. Rob passed the email pics around to others at the mine and they all thought it very impressive. The stamp, barely visible says CHOICE HONE.

The Belgian Blue side is like none I've ever seen. It practically shimmers and the psychedelic swirls are amazing (no psychedelics needed).

$8 at an antique fair. Installed in my permanent collection; priceless.











Chris L

[Utopian]

My 150-200 year old vintage stamped natural combo. Rob passed the email pics around to others at the mine and they all thought it very impressive. The stamp, barely visible says CHOICE HONE.

Chris, I am so glad that you had the sense not to lap that stone to perfectly flat. The point at which you stopped was perfect--it reached an edge, to allow the stone to be usable, but left enough of the stone's "patina" to frame it nicely. That's a beautiful stone and you treated it well!

[Chimensch]

This is a picture of my three coticules. The one on the left is a bout I bought from Steve at the Invisible Edge. The one on the left is a small Coticule/BBW combo I bought from a member on B&B and the one in the middle is my favorite, a very hard, smooth, greenish-yellow vintage coticule that I found at a flea market here in Modena. It had belonged to a barber and was severely dished out from years of use.

[ChrisL]

Chris, I am so glad that you had the sense not to lap that stone to perfectly flat. The point at which you stopped was perfect--it reached an edge, to allow the stone to be usable, but left enough of the stone's "patina" to frame it nicely. That's a beautiful stone and you treated it well!

Thanks Ron. I agree. Actually the patina was so dingy and dark when I picked it up out of a box of stuff at the antique show only to my trained eye did I know it was a coticule. But the characteristics even at that were almost unrecognizable. That patina you see there was after approx 5 min of rinsing under the faucet during lapping. So, you can imagine how the thing was almost black. Also, lapping any more would mean the faint stamp (I've never seen a stamp on another coticule before) would have disappeared.

You need to post some of your nice stones!

Chris L

[DwarvenChef]

While this may not float many who are used to BBW/Coti stones, it is my favorite at the moment. Till I get a better shot of my Oohira stone.

This stone I was able to get from my grandfathers estate, it will always have a special place

[JimmyHAD]

This is one of those which of your kids do you love the most questions. The first photo showing a few coticules and the second photo a "Salamander" (the label on the box). I guess my favorite coti is my pink one. Not the best but darned good and very pretty as well as unusual. My favorte "if I could only have one" hone is an Escher Y/G on the left in the last photo. Not that it is the "best" but on this particular day it is my favorite. Tomorrow it might be a different one. The one in the middle is a light green and to the right a blue green.

Edit; The third pic with the three Eschers is a blue/green, light green and dark blue. The fourth pic is the one I should have posted with the yellow/green on the right.

[ChrisL]

While this may not float many who are used to BBW/Coti stones, it is my favorite at the moment. Till I get a better shot of my Oohira stone.

This stone I was able to get from my grandfathers estate, it will always have a special place

That's a keeper!

This is one of those which of your kids do you love the most questions. The first photo showing a few coticules and the second photo a "Salamander" (the label on the box). I guess my favorite coti is my pink one. Not the best but darned good and very pretty as well as unusual. My favorte "if I could only have one" hone is an Escher Y/G on the left in the last photo. Not that it is the "best" but on this particular day it is my favorite. Tomorrow it might be a different one. The one in the middle is a light green and to the right a blue green.

Jimmy: Should you ever find that your stones need a foster home, I promise I'd give them a roof over their head, plenty of other worthy rocks to play with and a nutritious diet of water and steel when they needed it.

Chris L

[0livia]

Whow! Nice things!

My prettiest one is the Dalmore Blue / Tam O'Shanter combo.

[DwarvenChef]

Jimmy, that Salamander hone is fantastic, are the dots inclussions or something else? As a reptile addict I have a suddon NEED for such a hone