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Coticule selection offer

Just walked in from work and...it's here!!!

La Petite Blanche in all it's glory. Looking twice as nice as the photo. Beautiful.
I forgot to ask for a slurry stone to be included, but they sent me one anyway. :w00t:

Couldn't be happier than I am right now.
I already now what I'll be doing this evening.

Many thanks Bart.

Sincerely,

David.
 
Stayed up late last night waiting for the email (I'm ~7 hrs behind Belgium if memory serves). Finally went to bed to dream of coticules. Woke up this morning (noonish) and the email's there. Paid immediately and my stone will shortly be in its new home.

Thank you!
 
Dream's a reality.
Here she is;
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:love:
 
RicTic said:
Dream's a reality.
Here she is;
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:love:
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Show off! Hahaha I am still waiting
Seriously beautiful looking stone David, would you fancy starting a new thread on it's performance?
We could all join in once ours arrive :thumbup:

Regards
Ralfson (Dr)
 
Thanks all.
I'm quite surprised I appear to be the first to receive their stone. Usually, with my luck, I'm kept waiting, miss the postman, have to collect, getting slapped for a huge customs fee etc, etc.
Hope everyone's turns up swiftly and safe.
 
I might get mine this week. I might get it in a month.

Unrelatedly, I just got a package from Ralfy that he shipped almost two months ago. I'm convinced that Her Majesty's mail service employed eskimo to get my package here. :rolleyes:
 
danjared said:
Unrelatedly, I just got a package from Ralfy that he shipped almost two months ago. I'm convinced that Her Majesty's mail service employed eskimo to get my package here. :rolleyes:
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I just got a package from Ralfy today that he sent Wednesday. :w00t:
 
danjared said:
I might get mine this week. I might get it in a month.

Unrelatedly, I just got a package from Ralfy that he shipped almost two months ago. I'm convinced that Her Majesty's mail service employed eskimo to get my package here. :rolleyes:
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I'm still waiting on mine from roughly the same time period. I was convinced it was lost in the post... There's hope after all :D
 
Mine arrived! There is sad news, though. There is a crack that developed in transit that starts unavoidably on the surface of the coticule side and goes diagonally through almost the entire hone. It's the kind of crack that looks like it will end in separation. :cry: I'm in the process of trying to figure out what to do next. I'm waiting to hear back from Maurice about his advice, especially since I noticed at least one other significant crack that developed.
 
That is bad news. I 'm sure they will offer to replace it. These things happen, I think natural combo stones are a bit more fragile than the glued ones, but there was no indication of trouble with this particular one.

Kind regards,
Bart
 
Yeah, I'm not entirely sure what to do. I thought of trying to stabilize the crack with CA, but it is pretty deep. Here are some pictures.

The first one is the surface. A little piece came off the corner from me poking at it to see how wide the gap is. The piece broke off at a vein.

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The second is after wetting it and letting it dry. Where it still looks damp is where the big crack runs.

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I found another crack running along the other side, which might be easier to stabilize. Penciled in arrows point to where it is.

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Any ideas on whether it can be stabilized? I like the stone, but I also don't want such an expensive stone to fall apart on me at some indeterminate point in time. I know these stones also sometimes do this in travel when they otherwise look fine before shipping.
 
I can't think of anyone better equipped to deal with that stone, Jared, but I would ask for it's twin and be done with it. I have a feeling you want to keep it, and if I kept it, I would let it fracture and see if I could live with the two pieces, the small one a travel stone. You might make a deal to keep it and get another for a deep discount. I think Maurice is open to all solutions. Bummer. D
 
Yeah, I want to keep it. I should have also not played around with it, as someone pointed out that the chip that came off makes it look like it was dropped. :p (Although, if that really happened, I think there'd be more fragments.)

I tried lapping it yesterday to smooth it, but that was no good since the top part would just compress down and come back up when I stopped lapping. The part of the crack that's at the surface is very thin and breaks off easily, too. I guess I want to know if there's some way to force CA deep into the crack to properly stabilize it.
 
I went back and looked at the picture of it from when it was at Ardennes. I can see a line on the top that is where the crack surfaces now. I've also seen these lines on other stones that have not separated. I guess I just got unlucky. I really want to keep this stone, but I am reluctant to try my luck with fixing such an extensive crack on such an expensive stone.

I also want to take this opportunity to thank Bart (and Maurice) again for this selection offer. I just want to make it clear that I don't hold anyone at fault (pun not intended!) for the crack. I certainly don't think I would have been able to foresee it either.

If it is okay with Bart, I want to see about exchanging my stone with the second reserve stone (assuming it's still available and paying the price difference, of course). I have asked Maurice about it since he offered either a refund or an exchange.
 
Yes, the second reserve is still available, and I'm glad it is.
I'll make a phone call to Maurice tomorrow, to make sure you get it.

It's best to have it exchanged, even though there is chance go repair it. I'm going to talk to Maurice about that too. Maybe I can get his permission that you 'd be allowed to attempt a repair, and get a replacement no matter you succeed or not.

For the repair itself, you would need to use a couple of very small wooden wedges, and use them to force the crack a bit open. If you're lucky, this can be done without separating the parts. Next, CA-glue can be dripped in, the wedges can be removed and a minimum of pressure can be used to make sure both parts are bonded together. Should the parts separate upon wedging, they still can be glued. After the time required to allow the glue to reach its maximum strength the hone can be lapped.

But as said, let me talk to Maurice first and see if I can get you a license to play, while he ships you the replacement. I'll tell him you're one of the world's most helpful Coticule experts, always helping out new guys with advice about their Coticule. That isn't a lie and he can't wish himself a better ambassador for the whetstones he mines and sells to make his living. I don't need to tell him that, in order to get you your replacement, but it might convince him to not expect the defect hone to return. Which saves you the shipping trouble and if you're lucky, gets you a spare Coticule.:)

Kind regards,
Bart.
 
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