The bid history on this auction reinforces one simple concept...
SNIPE!
If you bid early all you do is guarantee that you will pay more than you would have if you avoided bidding until the last few seconds.
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The bid history on this auction reinforces one simple concept...
SNIPE!
If you bid early all you do is guarantee that you will pay more than you would have if you avoided bidding until the last few seconds.
I've got more than one in every color and I like them all. Some are better than others ..... or are they ? It is so hard to quantify..... for me anyway. Y/G and Light Green may be faster but the dark blue and the blue/green are killer too. Some stones with some razors are great but ... the results are what I go by and they vary..... is it the razor, the stone or me ? Great stones though IME whatever color you have.
Croaker, if you want to sell that "yellow green Thuringian", I'll take it from you! I'm sure the lack of a proper label is keeping you awake at night, and I just hate it when friends of mine aren't happy with their razors or hones.
No deal? Oh well, it was worth a try!
I agree with my fellow members. The color on that stone is amazing, plus the label is intact. I paid around 200 for my Mine. I love it, and still use it, even though I have J nats...
Well remember one thing, man made Nortons, Shaptons and Naniwas ..... God made Eschers and coticules. :rock:
Those pictures looked odd to me. Way too yellowy. Even the label looks like it's been soaked in gatorade. Yellow-green eschers are so sought-after that I almost thought someone had used a camera filter to get that effect... But the seller didn't sound particularly hone-savvy so I doubt it.
Anyway it sure went for a bomb.
Like a couple of other posters here I'm not convinced the Y/Gs are special among vintage Thuringians. I have one and love it, but I don't see any difference as a finisher between it and the dark blue Escher I used to have. The Y/Gs seem to be softer, and therefore a bit faster if you're using a slurry and doing some workhorse sharpening. I can see this making them popular with barbers back in the day. Nowadays most guys use Eschers as finishers only, and have other hones for workhorse sharpening. Used this way, I don't think there's an appreciable difference between yellow-greens and thes slightly harder dark blues.
I haven't tried the other colors (well, I did have a black one but didn't use it very extensively), but in general, I'm sort of skeptical about the differences in fineness among the color-grades of vintage Thuringians.