Thread: Old honing stone

Got a side pic? Curious how deep the chip runs...if its not real deep id just lap the stone till its all flat and out

Originally Posted by DennisBarberShop

Got a side pic? Curious how deep the chip runs...if its not real deep id just lap the stone till its all flat and out

I take a picture in the morning it's half way though the stone.
There is also one on the other side.

Personally I wouldn't waste excess stone unnessasarily. Lap the top till flat and where there are any chips camfer the edges into the chip and your done. No different than a bout or similar. As long as you keep the razor flat when honing it shouldn't cause any issues.

I second what eddy said

Absolute beauty . I have 1 Esher - blue and green , barber delight . I could enter into burning house , for this stone .

I think at this point, you can do whatever you like. Eschers are nice, but when they have large defects, they are only worth a fraction of ideal...from experience.

They lap easily, though, just don't be too heavy handed because they can crack (and may have some light stress cracks or layers in them as you lap far from the surface).

If you'd like to sell the stone, I'd leave it as it is and sell it to someone else. When they're less than 2/3rds of their original thickness or so, they also drop in value.

The label may be covering defects, I'd leave it where it is. The person who put the label on the stone likely chose the best side to leave unlabeled. It appears that one has some discoloration at least at one of the corners on the back.

If you're going to keep it, I'd just lap the stone until the defect was out and if the stone was thin, mount it to something. as a user stone, it'll never make a difference if it's a little thinner. The value is already mauled to some extent by that chip.

It already seems loose near the drawing so I'd try it with heat or water and a DE razor blade. Even a partial label should be enough to proof it's an Escher imho, so if you can only remove parts I wouldn't worry about it.

Otoh you could just leave the label and use it as slurry stone.

Originally Posted by hatzicho

I also wouldn't recommend to make any tries to remove the label. The Escher&Co Labels were glued with a very tigth glue, so they normally don't loosen in water (some Escher&Sons label could easily be removed - I think JimmyHad posted something to that phänomen in earlier posts here).
The chip looks bad, but there is enough material left that it could be lapped out. So the hone would still be thick enough to serve a live time and if you ever decide to sell the hone it still has the original label.

I'm way late to this thread, so it is probably long since solved one way or the other. The labels with the two people, a barber and one customer IIRC come off easily with a little bit of soaking. The ones with the group, like yours are much tougher. I forget who it was, but somebody posted that after soaking one for days, they were able to remove it intact. Anyway, I'd use it as it is. Bad chip but it looks like there is plenty of hone there if razors are what you're doing.