Thread: New Coticule is here.

Originally Posted by Disburden

Are there any blue lines on the side of the coticule running laterally?

No. But on one end where they were moving into a different layer there is a strip of dark brown. It's at the bottom where the slate attaches. It's lateral and lays in like the bottom of the coticule was champhered by about 3/16" and then filled with dark brown.

The surface in the last pictures looks like la nouvelle veine but there would be blue lines on the sides of the stone....I dunno!
Doesn't matter much...let us know when you hone on it.

Definitely a hard finisher there. I have two like it at home, (at work now) I'll post the vein name later...$460.00 hone? Looks like the prices went up at Ardennes....

Did You say $460.00????????????

Yup, 343.00 Euros or 472.00 usd for a 200x75 Selected grade Ardennes Coticule - natural sharpening stones from Vielsalm Belgium. - Online shop

Holey moley batman!! Seems like they've dug so deep that they have met up with the Japanese natural mines!

James.

You're almost in Suita territory there... (I think So said Shinden or Okudo start @ ~500 USD. Not sure about Oohira.) In any case, yikes!

Coticules haave had these prices since 2010, it's no surprise now. Ardennes had to move deeper and deeper into their mine to get stones which meant more risk and labor for the workers.

BTW, they're supposed digging in a neighboring site now, so is it still deeper and more labor intensive? Hmm.
I said it in another thread yesterday. 8X3 coticules used to cost 175$...gah the good ol days of 2009...

Hedges against declining currency .... There's platinum, there's gold and than there are coticules .......

Straight Razor Designs, stone without box or slurry stone, $409.99. Slurry stone is a different layer stone and much harder, and as easily as this coticule gives up slurry, doubt the need for it. The box is nice though, aesthetically and for protecting the surface.