Here’s one I forgot I had. Neat little stone with manganese in the bbw. This is one of the only cotis I’ve had that you can easily scratch with a fingernail. You can actually cut a groove in it in seconds with a thumb nail.
I have a suspected one on a glued combo. It's softer than my really fine bbws on natural combos but it seems about as fine. Like a good coticule edge with a slightly keener feel. I like it, got it out of dumb luck and had it a year before it dawned on me it might not be a red bbw.Thanks, yes, that was what I was thinking of. Having a sample size of precisely one, and a small one at that, is it normal for them to be so soft? Like, quite a bit softer than an average BBW. Almost to the point it would limit its use as a whetstone, I would have thought.
Could the one on the little coticule I have be just intended to be a non functional backing, as most BB stone was back in the day?
Edit, adding a link to remind myself to read it once the kid is in bed and things settle down.
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La Lorraine/ Rouge Du Salm
So, I've noticed that in the past few months every BBW that shows up on eBay has suddenly become a La Lorraine or Rouge Du Salm. It's getting to the point where it's worse than the old days when every oil-encrusted Synth anyone found was an "Escher" and every two sided stone was a "coticule"...www.badgerandblade.com
It’s an oldie.
Neat stone. Is it glued or natural?
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The transformation is amazing, @Legion. Did you have any idea the Coticule layer was so thick?
I think the red dots are a clue as well, I've bought a couple for that reason.
Thanks. I was thinking the same, especially since it has the curious and slightly pointless hole drilled in the nose. That means, however old the wooden base appears to be, the stone has an even older history hanging off something before the base was made.Nice relic, wouldn’t be a bit surprised if it had 18th century pedigree
They go way, waaaay back. The oldest one I have has 1761 carved into the side, along with the owners initials. I’d love to know why they made them boat shaped like that.Thanks. I was thinking the same, especially since it has the curious and slightly pointless hole drilled in the nose. That means, however old the wooden base appears to be, the stone has an even older history hanging off something before the base was made.
Gets my imagination going, thinking about its history, and how the heck it even found its way to Australia and when.
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Yeah, me too. It was your boat shaped one that made me excited when I spotted this.They go way, waaaay back. The oldest one I have has 1761 carved into the side, along with the owners initials. I’d love to know why they made them boat shaped like that.
should I be worried about these beasts still being active and possibly contaminate my cupboard and floors?