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A complete stranger gave me this coticule!
This is a special one. I got it from someone with whom I'd exchanged names less than a quarter of an hour before. And he isn't someone who doesn't know his hones: he used to be a barber and collects barberiana. In fact he's so skilled, he claims he can feel it when someone else used his new coticule. But apparently he enjoyed our talk and gave me an old barber coticule. I'd like to shout out his name to thank him publicly, but I don't think he'd like that - which is another attest of his character.
This is the hone. It's 224x50mm (8.8x2''). As you can see it was very cupped.
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Some don't mind the cupping, as it doesn't necessarily impair obtaining a good edge, and I did hesitate because flattening would require quite a bit of material to be removed, but my honing skills aren't that good and moreover, I like my hones in prime, flat, polished condition. So this is how it looks now:
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