Thread: Help Id this stone

I have only checked four boxes I have at present at home. Explanation of JGESS i have not have yet chance to see. Is that last S for "schleifstein"?

Could be, I may have cheated with the S from Escher. They put JGES on their miniature cars. I may have seen JGES or JGESS on a Thuringian but I forgot to save a picture.

I believe I've seen a coticule with an Escher label on the box before.. can't remember where. Could mean anything, swapped box, or even that Escher did brand some Coticules. Regardless of all that - that looks like a nice stone and it's certainly a nice box too.

I have seen S.R. Droescher coti's but thats the closest thing I have seen. Certainly not saying they do no exist.

Do coticules absorb water? i find that if i don't put the stone in water for 15 minutes before starting i find that i need to keep adding water every other pass. Also, jesus christ how slow it cuts, even with lots and lots of slurry. I'm finding it a hell of a challenge honing my 7/8 palmera in this narrow hone.

this may be a synthetic coloured like a coticule. some have mentioned coticules to be ever so slightly porous (one seemed to absorb melted wax used to repair it) but i have heard nothing like what you are describing.

I agree with ezpz, if this Coticule absorbs water it's most likely a synthetic. You can find out by comparing the dark side of your stone with pictures of BBWs which have a very distinct pattern.

Maybe im just paranoid since this is my first hone and hopefully don't really know what absorbing water looks like, so i made this to videos. The quality is pretty bad but at least you should be able to see the water and also the shiny surface of my hone.

shiny - YouTube

my hone drinking water - YouTube

Unfortunately that's not a Coticule after all

It could still be a barber hone.

It looks man-made to me. There were a number of razor hones that emulated the bbw/coticule combination hones, such as Nu-Way and Frictionite. The meandering line between the two halves seems to have been caused by the dark half being allowed to set in the mould, then having the yellow half poured on top - any contraction of the bottom layer away from the sides of the mould would generate this type of seepage. Should be easy to check - scratching or drilling into the lowest part of the yellow layer that overlaps the dark layer should reveal the dark layer pretty quickly.

You can see the uneven line in the following pics of frictionite hones - low quality because they were grabbed from the web:



Regards,
Neil