Thread: Thuri?

Looking at the surface where the DMT removed material it could be a Thuringian..

Additional to this...any sawmarks visible ?

Ok so I lapped it. I am posting pics of my swedinstien and my thuri. As they were sold to me as...

The new one is 15 mm thick

I think i will have to take pics in the am for better lighting.

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,you got more pics of this Thuri than most families have of their new born babies,,,


,I love pics,,,, every antique store I go into gets every hone size box opened,,,one day I hope to get lucky too.

I just hope its a finisher and you didnt give too much for it

Originally Posted by Hirlau

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,you got more pics of this Thuri than most families have of their new born babies,,,


,I love pics,,,, every antique store I go into gets every hone size box opened,,,one day I hope to get lucky too.

lol. Just trying to get a clear pic to figure out what stone it is. I have checked a bunch of stones at antique stores. Everyone is a nasty looking brick.

I have no dount it will be a great finisher from the feel. I paid $39 for it. Was hoping to pay less.

If you already have a thuringian it must be an easy job to compare both of them....

Also if the unknown hone has another colour or was quarried from another quarry or from a different layer in the same quarry...all thuringians i have are very easy to compare to each other on several characteristics...

Which could be:
- feeling when touching over it (very
fine feeling, silky)
- colour or consistency of slurry
- very very fine particles
- sawmarks
- backside of the stone
- reaction with water when put on the
stone, water will stay, water will not
be soaked away
- reaction when flattening with
sanding paper (Material/slurry is
raised very fast) which other natural
hones f.ex. Novaculites (Charnley
Forest) or sandstones not do

Some characteristics which could also help sometimes:
- smell
- sizes which are often standard
(not all)

I know that these characteristics shurely also fit for other kinds of natural hones (other shist f.ex..)

But these are just some points to think about....

I do have a thuri. At least that is what I was told it was from whom I bought it from. I think it is. Now the slurry is lighter on my thuri. I was under the impression that the slurry on thuri are usually the same color between stones. The new stone is darker. When I was lapping it. Dark almost black water spots were splashed on yo the sink. It raises a slury rather easy. So is it a swedinstien? Thuri? Sorry to be persistent just want to put a name to the stone. Instead of the gray thing glued to the piece of wood.

Thuringian hones were quarried in several areas and from several different layers...so slurry will always have a slight different colour regarding the layer it was mined from...

I dont know if we really can evaluate it but it seems to be it could be a thuringian with a darker colour (f.ex. dark blue)...

There are some more posts on swedensteins which look different in my point of view then this one you got....