I do not. Many coticule descriptions that mention a glued on substrate say that it is not suitable for honing. The same may not true for all natural (not glued) coticules.
Coticule love... show off your rock
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Ardennes describes it as an unusable honing surface only meant to add support to the yellow coticule. I know a few guys have tried it over the years but the consensus is that it's no good for honing.
The fact that most people won't even use the BBW side of a stone when it is known to be used for knives especially and sold marketed that way by the mine should tell you that a piece deemed unusable by the mine would not be worth the effort even if it actually did anything.
Fresh from Ardennes. Reddish color visible from sides. Can't wait to lap and run a razor over it.
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Neat stone. What’s the size?
6x3
Well, that same seller put up a misidentified bbw the other day almost a month later.. The bbw that released from this.. I'm disgusted I paid $21 plus shipping for a bbw but the dimensions was making finding one a pain.
I wouldn't bother with the backing, personally. That's plenty thick to survive on its own. I've owned tons of hard pure coti's way, way thinner than that. Honestly, I'd lap the back and use both sides.
There's no point in it really as the back is probably fairly similar to the front. I like hand honing so I like s taller hone in general. The bbw seems quite red so whike it still annoys me it may well be interesting.
Mucho Bueno. Hopefully it’s something special.
This stone is just gorgeous. 5x2.5 Extremely heavy, very dry feeling and even the bbw cuts...
577.8g
I swear I've owned that stone before. I had a 5x2.5 where the Yellow made that same little shimmy/run down into the BBW in the past.
Probably a doppelganger. This was dished and parked for decades with frictionites and things
Maybe I had it's neighbor, lol. Coticules are wacky stones.
Way it came to me.
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I’ve seen a few like that but not many. @David had a couple I know.
You shouldn't sell cotis like that, sell average ones that look cool or have desirable dimensions..
I'm down to 3 definite keepers, plus 5 I'm debating. The cutoff has gotten hiiiiigh. I had 30+ less than a year ago.