Thread: No proof but I believe this to be a very rare rose Thuringian

Originally Posted by gugi

With a boxful of dull razors that could be a lot of fun. Don't remember to hide them as soon as they're sharp otherwise tomorrow night you may be sleeping with the fishes...

With my non-existent honing abilities, I have no fear of anything getting sharp, but it might be fun to see how much slurry I could create on them!

"Hey honey! Look what I did to your counter tops, it's the latest fashion, it's called the, "slurry effect", tell all your friends!"

She'll drag you through the slurry for that remark and make you clear up the mess.

Title of post is from the bay according to seller.seller re-listed the stone, price dropped dramatically....but, what is it?

I like to see shots of the side of the stone too. Not sure what that is.

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Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I like to see shots of the side of the stone too. Not sure what that is.

The seller moves a lot of stone but I do not believe that he has ever set razor to stone so as a seller of hones he is unique.

Interesting stone. Most Thuringans I've seen are homogeneous in color more often than not. Whatever that is, looks more liks some sort of hybrid.

I don't think that hone has anything to do with:

1. CFs
2. Thuringians
2. Vosgiennes
3. Schwedenstein
4. Pierre de Lorraine
5. Goldfisch/Wetzlar
etc, etc, etc.
6. Rose Thuringian - a figment of the imagination, as is the so-called welsh thuringian.

I don't even think it is from the continent of Europe, as I have only ever seen three or four examples, all in the UK, and all fixed to paddles. I have a similar one myself - it changes colour a lot when wet, is fairly soft, and gives a remarkably good edge. What it is - I couldn't tell you



Regards,
Neil

Thanks Neil...

Whatever this stone is, it is definately not a soft thuringian waterwhetstone that we all know, such as the Escher type hones. As pointed out in some other threads there are different hones and sharpening stones comming from the thuringian area that do have interesting colours - so I could not really exclude this to be a thuringian stone. But up to know - I have not seen such a stone with this texture and spots in any of the thuringian quarries I examinated.

Independed of this, just for information, the following pictures show a special thuringian hone with fantastic rainbow colors, that comes from one the very special ordovician quarries of the thruingian mountains.