I just bought these great hones for just 13€!
Two thüringian hones, that still needs to be identified and one coticule, glued on a blue Belgian.
The size on both thüringian is 5,4 x 17,5 cm.
One day at the fleemarket well spent. :-)
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I just bought these great hones for just 13€!
Two thüringian hones, that still needs to be identified and one coticule, glued on a blue Belgian.
The size on both thüringian is 5,4 x 17,5 cm.
One day at the fleemarket well spent. :-)
Wow. I don't know else to say.
Nice score!!
Congratulations, thanks for sharing! :)
MIke
Wow, what a haul for 13 euros!
+1 on the Wow...
As already mentioned ;-) great scoooooooore!!
I NEVER find good hones in flea markets or antique shops... you are VERY lucky indeed.
Congratulations: Call the police, a robbery has just occurred.
I my dreams, that's the only place I find stuff like this. Congrats
Of cause the hones looked like crap but I cleaned them and lapped them completely flat.
A test honing shows great performance on all, thou one of the thüringians are slightly faster and better.
I been mailing with Sebastian about the origin of the hones, but he haven't nailed it yet. I'll try to send better pictures in daylight later.
No matter where the black hones come from, they are great.
I been to 60 fleemarkets or so, without ever finding anything, so it was a great find.
Good hunt to you all :-)
Thank you for telling us that your success rate was/is less than 2%...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kristian
Here I was thinking this was an every weekend thing for you to find and although we are all happy for you I'm thinking I need to move or give up hunting...
Good Hunting to all, these need to used as hones and not paper weights and door stops...go find them...
Well in my calculating it's closer to 5% :-) but then again it's not much :-) I found two Eschers on a fleemarket last year, but they were damaged beyond repair. I let them go.
Today I regret it. I've could have used then as slurry stones, but I didn't thought of it at the time.
I've taking new pictures.
From left to right FASO hone the new fast cutter and the banded new fine hone.
Then the massive FASO hone, FASO and the new hones.
Finally the FASO and new hones together with my little Escher. It's really difficult to see any difference. And I must confess, that I love my coticules the most. :-)
Perhaps the photo will rotate. It's a iPad problem. Then use the big FASO to navigate :-)