I think a found a thuri at an antique store . Won't be able to raise a slury till I get home. What do you guys think? Attachment 151642Attachment 151643
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I think a found a thuri at an antique store . Won't be able to raise a slury till I get home. What do you guys think? Attachment 151642Attachment 151643
Sure looks like a Thuringian. Good luck! :)
Congratulations sir. It’s exciting to find a nice one in the wild he,he. No more Dunkin Donuts till you get her cleaned up. It sure looks like it can be Thuringian. Or maybe this?
http://i.imgur.com/mNPUGAw.jpg
or even this? I have seen gray ones on paddles too. Does it have an oil smell?
http://i.imgur.com/jmugxSd.jpg
Lol. Only DD in the am. Which stones are those?
No oil smell.
Hehe...
Up to date it could be everything....lap it...pictures from the front....
If you want to put it out of the wooden holder pictures from back and the sides, picture with water and slurry...
After this it would be easier to identify correcly...
Ok so I raised a slury. Here are the pics Attachment 151667Attachment 151668
Talk about bragging,,,:rolleyes:,,,he took the first photo of it on his cell phone, in the antique store parking lot,,,, :rofl2:
Lol!!! Only bragging if it is a good find. Sucker if it's not. Lol
What color is the slury on a special stone?
Well, here is a big gray SS with off white slurry.
http://i.imgur.com/y2PnAxd.jpg
And here is a Dalmore with brownish green slurry. The Dalmore will feel gritty when you draw a razor across it.
http://i.imgur.com/lT4Zmxa.jpg
I thought the Dalmore has swirls in the stone?
Interesting looking stone. The shape and colour of the slurry make a thuringian not as likely.
Not all Dalmore Blues have the swirl texture. They do have a greenish slurry. They're porous sandstones iirc, if you put some drops of water on a dry DB you can see the water getting absorbed.
Can you make a picture of it dry?
Hi Piet i agree...slurry looks different and more yellowish/brownish...Quote:
Originally Posted by Piet
@nicknbleeding
Try the test Piet recommended....i also have a Dalmore with less or nearly no swirls....
You should feel if you have a porous sandstone (Dalmore Blue) which feels a little bit gritty but fine, or if you have real thuringian which is very very smooth and feels like silk....
As having no Special Stone:mad: i cant give any advice....sorry...
Thank you guys. Not porous at all. Raised a slury very easily with dmt. Brownish slury.
The light color is where the dmt was. I didn't fully lap it. Attachment 151899
Attachment 151900 one more
Did you clean it in any way before ? I am unsure but this looks more as ist was used with oil or there ist still a huge amount of dirt (slurry?) which wasnt cleaned on the surface...so it could be that this layer of "whatever" influenced the colour of the slurry....
I think thats why i would recommend to fully lap/clean this one before....
Ok I will lap it when I get home.
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... Attachment 151932Attachment 151933Attachment 151934Attachment 151935
The new one is 15 mm thick
I think i will have to take pics in the am for better lighting.
,,,,,,,,,,,,Attachment 151945,,,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
:rofl2: 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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hirlau
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....
