8x1 3/4. If it hones as good as it looks it should be something else...
Coticule love... show off your rock
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Hard to tell, lap it and get a better pic. As of now it looks the same
Ok, I will do as soon as I acquire the necessary lapping tools. 
And this is a friend's 150x40mm Selected, bought a week ago from Italy.
To my eyes it seems different in color/texture than mine, any guess on the vein?
And this is a friend's 150x40mm Selected, bought a week ago from Italy.
To my eyes it seems different in color/texture than mine, any guess on the vein?
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Not sure on that one.
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"Look what I found"
Rescued this from hiding inside a Carborundum box. 7x2 natural beauty. Clipped on two opposing corners. Hard and glassy surface
That surface looks like a 4x2 I have. Does it feel a bit gritty with only water?
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It looks like there’s some Les Lat in there further down.
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I recently got a Torrey multi hone with an "Old Italian Rock". The stone looks unused and the other 3 strops were useable. I have to say that if this is coticule it is quite different from my other ones. Seems less dense + more abrasive/raspy? It does not have alot of features besides some tiny pock marks and was sort of grey colored before oil. The red smear in the photo is red paste transfered from the back wood side from putting the leather cover over it and not inherent.
I tried water to start with and it was too scratchy, some 800 grit improved the surface some, and slurry stone helped smooth it further. The instructions on the box call for oil and it feels better that way. I took a syn shave ready Joeseph Elliott razor to it and did 40 passes. Dont think it did alot of good to be honest, lots ramming "boulders" feeling. Felt kind of like shaving directly off a BBW or my 3line swaty, sharp and serviceable but not very enjoyable. Tired 40 more stone passes with minimal change. I then used the other 3 parts of this strop including the red paste on wood, blackish paste on leather and clean leather. Way better shave, really impressed by the progression improvement. I could see someone 120 years ago being very happy with this item and I feel fortunate to experience it. I really am surprised by the stone feel and how well the strop parts worked.
I tried water to start with and it was too scratchy, some 800 grit improved the surface some, and slurry stone helped smooth it further. The instructions on the box call for oil and it feels better that way. I took a syn shave ready Joeseph Elliott razor to it and did 40 passes. Dont think it did alot of good to be honest, lots ramming "boulders" feeling. Felt kind of like shaving directly off a BBW or my 3line swaty, sharp and serviceable but not very enjoyable. Tired 40 more stone passes with minimal change. I then used the other 3 parts of this strop including the red paste on wood, blackish paste on leather and clean leather. Way better shave, really impressed by the progression improvement. I could see someone 120 years ago being very happy with this item and I feel fortunate to experience it. I really am surprised by the stone feel and how well the strop parts worked.
The yellow side of my Les Lat. has a weird texture look to it. It’s only in the middle and is smooth to the touch.
That's crazy, it almost looks like su in the stone. I've never seen any coticule like that.
Me either.
Those are really nice pieces of coticule!
Thanks, it is really clean and well preserved besides the box. I will experiment with it more and maybe carefully try a slurry dilution progression. My newer mined 2 coticules are so smooth they barely do anything besides polish, while this one really does work. I bet this stone could cut as fast as a 2k synth if you added pressure and slurry. I have to imagine long ago a more abrasive coticule would be wanted for a combo hone and likely was hand picked for this purpose. It might start to mellow out the more I use it though.
I've got a newer one that was sold as an axe stone that tells like it's got more abrasives in it but also they're more aggressive kinda like quartz. It's really fast but pretty fine. Can't finish on it, got to jump to something else.
Seriously, the old rocks are some of my personal favorite coticule slices and one of the few I always expect to be excellent finishers.
That's a huge stone
Waiting on this one to arrive.
Got the coti today it’s a nice looking stone
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