A few years ago I bought my first Coticule, I was looking for a good whetstone for my chisels and it was relatively cheap. I didn't know anything about Coticules and I was very suprised by how fast it was. Unfortunately I lost it about 2 years ago but today my girlfriend found it. It's a small stone (only 10x4 cm) but what it lacks in size it makes up for in speed. Even without a slurry the stone turns dark-grey very fast. It also hardly produces any slurry during sharpening but it's still very fast. It's a hard stone but it feels very smooth and soft, almost velvet like. I'm glad to have it again, I thought it was lost forever.
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