Originally Posted by
dylandog
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.