Thread: Coticule question

Who knows maybe buried deep within your coticule you'll find a 50 carat diamond

Way to go bigpspendur....All I needed was another reason to buy more rocks.

Just finished shaving with it. Its a Boker DFS......worth the struggle. Very very smooth



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Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

This is true. OTOH, I don't have the patience to mess with a slow sharpening stone. That is why the good Lord made the Norton 4/8 ......

Well if you own a 4/8K then yeah, why would you even bother? LOL.
I like sharpening on all different kinds of stones..that's the hobbiest in me. If I was honing for a bunch of people as a Vendor the 4/8K would be my go to hone every time...
I do really love that stone!



That being said a slow coticule is very good as a finisher. I owned a few Green ones, they're known as the La Verte layer and they were all very hard and slow stones but the finish was great.

Originally Posted by Disburden

That being said a slow coticule is very good as a finisher. I owned a few Green ones, they're known as the La Verte layer and they were all very hard and slow stones but the finish was great.

I've got a long green coti from Mike in South Africa. Very slow and leaves a fine polished edge. I've noticed the ones with pink hue or pink areas tend to be fast. At least IME. Than again, I've got one that came in a Droescher box that is the color of a white eggshell and it is bad to the bone for fast and fine.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I've got a long green coti from Mike in South Africa. Very slow and leaves a fine polished edge. I've noticed the ones with pink hue or pink areas tend to be fast. At least IME. Than again, I've got one that came in a Droescher box that is the color of a white eggshell and it is bad to the bone for fast and fine.

I had one of those "Escher" coticules too and it was great.. These damn naturals.. they're bewitching to me.
The pink coticules due tend to be fast...la petite blanche is usually pink and a very fast coticule, but it will auto slurry a lot when you try to finish an edge on water..With that I recommend honining under a running tap of water to make sure the slurry doesn't build and auto dull your edge or set it back.

My Coti as a very green grain running through it but shes really fast at least it seems that way to me, on plain water you can see the steel gray in the water. That might be not be fast but i don't have any other coticules to compare.

Don't say that there could be a diamond in there now i want to beat my beautiful coticule up to see if i'm rich!