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Ain't that the truth :rofl2:

Judging from his picture I don't think it was a Les Petas, either la grise or nouvelle veine would be my guess, but it's hard to tell
I'm not particularly fond of my Les Petas honing feel either,...

You know, I actually test my razors coming off the hone this way, I shave a small piece on my face, dry, if it doesn't tug and pull and shaves cleanly and rather smoothly I'm done

I have a couple of old Coticules that have trouble with flaking and one that is cracked right in the middle, the remaining usable surface is rather small and I'm unable to comfortably do x-strokes,...

Big +1 to this advise, you'll feel the difference in honing with that one layer of tape, it feels really good with great results.

I had trouble with the Coti at first as well.
What I did was I took as much out of the 'equation' as I could, minimizing all the different subjective factors that I could,
meaning that instead of...

Either a La Grise or La Nouvelle Veine
either way they both leave fantastically smooth edges and I personally would have gotten a Coticule from one of those 2 layers if I could choose a specific vein

Nice! Good luck in your Coticule endeavors!

I can't tell for sure, but it looks it has a grainy/woodsy type surface?

I for one favor those type of Coticules, they always give me very smooth...