Paul
Well-Known Member
I finally put down my Les Latneuses, feeling like I have a fair understanding of it, and I decided to start working on nº 46 from the vault. As Bart mentioned, this stone is unusual considering it is almost eggplant colored but raises a normal looking coticule slurry. It changed to grey almost immediately, but it didn't turn much darker after the initial color change. It was weird. One thing of note, the coticule part of this stone broke in half and separated from the BBW. This left me with a long BBW half backed with coticule and one big (almost ideally sized) piece of coticule. This session was with the long BBW and Coticule...
If you look at the picture, you can clearly see some uneven areas. Since it is so thin on the coticule part (bbw is starting to show through), I decided that I'd just use a small piece of sandpaper to smooth the transitions and not worry about getting the unevenness out of it.
The result:
It was much faster than I expected reading Bart's summary. I mostly go by feel on the dilution, and I went through it very quickly. It reminded me of my les latneuses in that it seemed to suck the blade to the stone. It didn't take long at all, and after stropping, it was a HHT-4. Test shave tonight, I'll update the thread
If you look at the picture, you can clearly see some uneven areas. Since it is so thin on the coticule part (bbw is starting to show through), I decided that I'd just use a small piece of sandpaper to smooth the transitions and not worry about getting the unevenness out of it.
The result:
It was much faster than I expected reading Bart's summary. I mostly go by feel on the dilution, and I went through it very quickly. It reminded me of my les latneuses in that it seemed to suck the blade to the stone. It didn't take long at all, and after stropping, it was a HHT-4. Test shave tonight, I'll update the thread