My first Coticule
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Those "cracks" could very well just be manganese lines, which won't effect honing at all.
I bid on that one too, looks like it will clean up nice. That's pretty typical size for a vintage stone. If you can pick up a slurry stone do so, it will be valuable when using the coti.
Nice looking stone. Congrats on your first, you won’t have any structural issues with that one.
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Absolutely!!
If you can you should get one that's a natural combo, then you'll be able to use bbw slurry on your coticule too.
A coticule slurry stone is nice to have. They do vary a little, so it might be worth it to get a few. You can also use a different type of stone to generate slurry with. You just need a hard slurry stone that doesn't release grit that kick up the base stone. I would stay away from diamond plate generated slurry.
Ardennes does ship to Australia. Shipping starts at 25 Euro.
I usually use a second full sized Coti.
Ardennes used to ship to Oz. Maybe flick them an email. If so, whatever the smallest bout they have will be good.
For a slurry stone? Ouch.
Yeah. You’ve got to get a few things to make it worthwhile.
@bernie01 be sure to tell them you intend to use the stone for razor honing. They'll pick you out a good one.
Put up a wanted to buy add here on the forum.
You can get small slurry coticules of amazon and I'm sure they'll post to Australia.
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I don't use a slurry stone with my coticule/BB, the same as yours. I only use the coticule side for finishing and it can develop its only very light slurry that is just right for my carbon steel blades.
The BB side I use as a pre-finisher and it will easily develop its own very nice slurry.
I still finish some of my carbon steel blades on diamond pasted balsa. They are for when I want a crisp edge to shave with (like this morning).
I find that my harder stainless steel blades prefer finishing on my Adaee #12000 Cnat. Takes time but is worth it.
The BB side I use as a pre-finisher and it will easily develop its own very nice slurry.
I still finish some of my carbon steel blades on diamond pasted balsa. They are for when I want a crisp edge to shave with (like this morning).
I find that my harder stainless steel blades prefer finishing on my Adaee #12000 Cnat. Takes time but is worth it.
Based on maybe a dozen identical stones to that one... it will be fast and easy to read. It's not going to be the finest one out there but it should be plenty fine to shave off of. It's a really good first coti.
