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Well I wouldn't consider 25 years ago recent ....:shrug: but YMMV :)

Ron, I don't know about the rest of the USA but in NJ up until the early '80s the state barber licensing board had an apprenticeship system. You went to work in a shop for a barber and learned...

Back in the '80s I talked to a lot of barbers about hones and honing. They used Belgian coticules but I never met one who called it a 'coticule'. They called them Belgian stones or more often soap...