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I didn't know SRD had them back in stock, good to know.
You definitely can't beat their prices and service at Select Grade.

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,...

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.

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

That definitely looks like the ones on Jarrod's site. I know he calls them "la verte" but I'm sure they're just a different layer altogether since Ardennes starting digging in a different spot, new...

Try it with just water, does metal come out from the razor in water? If so how many strokes, 10, 50,300? This will tell you how much of a polisher your hone is, the longer it takes to see metal in...