Thread: New Dark Blue Escher

That was the easiest stone. Tried it with slurry, very light slurry and water only. The with slurry felt like a coti, the very light was smooth and sharper and the water only was very keen but smooth. I like the water only. I don't think I need a coti anymore. That was really easy.

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It has the Holy Grail on it. Ime, Those Eschers work well with just water. Some labels say the hone will produce a "slime" as you hone. Some Eschers came with rubbing stones.

Why bother with a coti then? I have three and 2 produce fine edges. One I think is a knife or tool stone (uneducated guess) But you know the slurry dilute yada yada yada. Fingertip drops of water dilute again etc. This is cake! I still like my Jnats though even though you have to work em.

Congrats bill,
that looks like the real one.
Eschers normally self slurry a little bit, so you don't need to make slurry with a stone. In older times the Thuringians were used for much more work to do on a straight, because the people got only the one hone to maintain their razor and keep it sharp. So the stones were not just used as endfinishers, as most of us do today. Thats why they came with a slurry stone.
But if you want or need to produce slurry you can use a little trick. Normally the stones came in the past with a slurry stone cut from the same material and color than the stone or an even darker colored one. Blue stones are normally a bit harder than green ones and are also used to clean and open the surface of the stone. If you simply want to make slurry, use a slurry stone that is softer than your hone. For example if your stone is blue, use a green thuringian slurry stone. Than the slurry is made from the small and cheaper slurry stone and saves your main hone.

Its got a really nice label that is sealed. Im intending on using it and trying to preserve the label at the same time. I guess the water will penetrate the stone to the label with use. Im not a collector though and have no intention of stroring it on a shelf. So I guess with use the label will have to take a hit then.

Originally Posted by bill3152

Its got a really nice label that is sealed. Im intending on using it and trying to preserve the label at the same time. I guess the water will penetrate the stone to the label with use. Im not a collector though and have no intention of stroring it on a shelf. So I guess with use the label will have to take a hit then.

If the label is preserve with clear nail polish there will be no problem, the water will not penetrate the stone to reach the label.

I use nail polish for end labels and Krylon Preserve It for back labels. It is a spray on document protector and seems to be working well on a few I have the past 4 or 5 years.

Water does not penetrate Eschers, if it does it takes a very long time to do so. I do not put nail polish on labels, I use so little water that it does not spill over the surface. I like to keep my Eschers as original as poss.