Originally Posted by PapaBull
I like the Belgian coticules but I don't really consider them a finishing stone. The more I use ceramics the more I like them. Everyone seems to be on the Norton 4K/8K and Coticule bandwagon and few seem to like the good old-fashioned barber hones but I'm one of them. These were used to keep razors shaving sharp for a long, long time before Norton abrasives was around and the thing I know that creates a finer edge than the old ceramic barber hones is maybe the newer Spyderco ceramic hones.