What a beauty Sebastian!!
Coticule love... show off your rock
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Yeah this one really is, but i have to check if the surface is working well, as you can see there are 3 lines of probably pure Quartz running thru the stone...the rest are manganese lines and dots these are not critical....
Good luck with it. If the yellow is hard enough there should be no problem.
It's in france somewhere right now. I suppose it could be 7 decades of gauloises smoke, but I am guessing if I lapped it a bit it would probably revert to a tannish green color. Part of the fun of EU hone risks is seeing what arrives and how they pack it.
Hehe ;-) hope it turns out green...
Every other greenish one I have seen has similar figuring on the surface. I am guessing it will be monstrously hard. It's a nice size, and the paddle is just value added as far as I'm concerned because it looks cool. Coticules are usually pretty good about not tricking you with filth. Most of them being non-porous most likely helps matters there. I ul the primary pic to photobucket for a larger size than bb upload.
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Sebastian that's a killer Les Lat. Love the lines on the coti side and the hybrid is beautiful. That one is visually on par with Gary's old stone. Congrats!
My first newly mined stone in a long time.
They have been pulling a lot of interesting stones out of the ground lately.
This one isn't a brand new, I meant that I normally buy vintage stones.
My coti is vintage, too. Although, I guess they are all rather vintage on the order of a few million years! Is there a reason for your preference?
Nope. You can normally get them cheaper than is really the only reasons
Shurely all the stones are Vintage ;-) and to be true only a labelled stone might be really under the "Vintage" definition....
But its possible to come over older stones from certain layers of Quarries were today the quarry might be closed or the layer might be actually not reachable, so these are on my personal definition also Vintage stones...
Been awful quiet the last couple days...
Better pic?
Possibly the hardest coticule on the planet. Lol tried to round the corners with 600 grit wet dry last night and it barely made a mark.
I have one hard that way, I literally use the edge to score slurry stones sometimes. You would never be able to tell.
Pretty manganese lines. Love that look.
It's not as pretty or interesting as some of the recent posts but I finally got a good edge from it is it has earned a pic posted. La grise 40x125 from TSS may 2013 when I started straight shaving.
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What did you adjust to get your result? Laps, slight pressure, going by feel?
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