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Thread: Coticule Considerations
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10-07-2010, 06:40 PM #11
Hi Rich,
I bought 4 over the past several months. One (which is pinkish) was from Michael Poe. it is a great stone. I love this one and huge (8x3, natural combo). The other 3, I got from straightrazordave and the description was excellent + had links to Bart's Vault for each stone. They are:
- La Petite Blanche
- La Grosse Blanche
- La Veinette
To me, it was important that the stone come with accompanying info so as to give me a guideline of what I am looking at...but only a guideline. I still have to learn the stone. Dave was incredibly diligent in sharing such info about each stone and I have made a workbook, cataloging this information about each stone.
3 of my stones are select grade and one is a bout.
Also, unless I purchase insurance, I cannot expect the seller to replace the stones for me...Especially given the fact that these are natural and no two are created equal.
I don't know much about these (yet), I was looking to cover the gamut - from soft to hard. I think La Veinette is a relatively hard one and the others, as you say, somewhere in between and soft.
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10-07-2010, 06:43 PM #12
Thanks for the tips! I'll have to try scratching my two, but of course I want more.
I will say that my faster cutting one is definitely on the pinkish hue color, while my other one is more pale yellow.
I would really like to get a 7 day set so I try try my finishers on each on different blades so that I can rule out the steel the razor being made and eliminate just one more factor in how the edges are.
I haven't tried synthetics, but I'm very surprised at how fast I can get my razor after bevel setting to finishing using the dulicot method.
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10-07-2010, 06:48 PM #13
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10-07-2010, 07:42 PM #14
Last edited by zib; 10-07-2010 at 07:49 PM.
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10-07-2010, 08:32 PM #15
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10-07-2010, 08:37 PM #16
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Thanked: 13245I think the biggest consideration is that a stone is just a stone...
A little story here,
I got back into straight razors in 2007 I still had my Super White Arkansas that had served me well for over 20 years... As so many have said "I didn't know any better I got close comfortable shaves"
After reading a ton on here from Lynn, and talking with Howard I bought a 4k/8k Norton and learned how to hone, not just re-fresh...
When I started restoring razors I added the 220-1k Norton...
My next stone was a Shapton Sweet 16 followed quickly by a steal at the antique store a Vintage still with the stamps 6x2 Extra-Extra Very fine pale yellow Coticule/BBW $20
Those went from June of 2007 to July of 2008 when I ordered the Shapton Bottom to Top set...
During the next year saw the addition of 4 Ch12k's that I worked with and narrowed down to only 1...Learned that, "Yes Natural stones are just that, naturally different"...
The following August I added the entire Naniwa line...
Throughout 2009 and 2010 I have added many new stones to expand my own knowledge base...
Another Coticule, a beautiful 8x3 with very slight grain marks
A 8x3 Thuringan
A Nakayama Midori
A Blue Green Escher..
A full set of 1.5x8 Nortons
DMT's
King's
I got to mess with many more at the various meets...in fact I have been honing quite a few this past few weeks on the Henckles 220-1-3-8 system (Naniwa SS) that Jeffus sent home with me from Spokane...
What has using all these hones on literally thousands of razors taught me????
That they are all just stones and hones, and the real magic is in using them, and learning to use them...
When you hear people profess all about one single hone, and the virtues of that hone, and how it is superior to all other hones, you can almost bet that one of two things are going on...
1. They are getting ready to sell it
2. They haven't tried all that many hones, on all that many razors..
So back to this thread, the biggest consideration is that, no matter what it is, or where you get it, or how much you pay for it it is still just a stone and that you have to invest the time in sweat, to make it great, as it is just a stone, and cannot bestow some magical honing ability upon you when you unwrap it
Now go hone some razors...
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10-07-2010, 10:11 PM #17
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10-07-2010, 10:39 PM #18
Personally, I think you guys all have rocks in your head.
No matter how many men you kill you can't kill your successor-Emperor Nero
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10-07-2010, 11:09 PM #19
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10-07-2010, 11:14 PM #20
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Thanked: 13245LMAO Jimmy I almost put your line in there, but I figured I should leave it for you to say
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