Ardennes Coticule

Legendary garnet sharpening stones. Amazing combination of speed and fineness of cutting. Leaving no discernible burr, or wire-edge! 

The remarkable cutting abilities of the stones are due to their embedded hard, rhomboid-shaped garnet crystals, millions of them, which both cut and hone, wedging, rolling underneath the steel. Cutting and polishing at the same stroke.

You may not believe it until you see it!!!  

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