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    Thank you that was very informative. For some reason, despite the evidence to the contrary I assumed thuris to be hard. I would expect this could also explain some of the rough feedback from the slurry. I know I overhoned a couple edges to see how long it would take on the thuri and got chipping on the edges. Wonder if it was due to the particles freeing up as you said, in combination with too thin an edge.
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    Also I do want a slurry stone to experiment with. I considered sawing a bit off of mine to use, but it's already so small, about 25mmx60mm. Since the Quartz and matrices are the same this seems like it would be preferable to raise a slurry with over a dissimilar stone. Is this the case, or are there other stones that work equally well of not better (in general, I know natural stones vary).
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    What is the color of your thuringian?
    If you take care of the shipping costs, I will send you a matching slurry stone.
    Regards Peter

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    Quote Originally Posted by hatzicho View Post
    What is the color of your thuringian?
    If you take care of the shipping costs, I will send you a matching slurry stone.
    Regards Peter
    Thank you! That's very generous. I will post some pictures of it I can't quite tell what color it is. If my memory serves the stone is blue ish grey and makes a light grey slurry. But I think the same might be said for other varieties. Is it usually subtle?
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    It is very intreting that even thuri varie - i have 2 of them , blue - green and dark grey almot black . The BG is softer and finer faster stone , the black is little coarser and hard stone .I love them both and also my Franconian - looks eczactly like this

    http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...an-hone-2.html

    exactly like the 3 from left to right , but it is small stone - 12 x2,5 sm. - 5 x1 inch

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    Here are some pictures of the hone, now that I look at it, the stone seems pretty dark.


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    Is it just the picture or is the slurry darker gray? That may be a different type of slate and not a Thuri.

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    I could not tell you from my own experience that this stone is a thuri. But I bought it off of a trusted member here through the classifieds. They claimed to believe it was a finer stone than a couple of eschers that they owned.
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    I have a slate that gives much better edges than any Thuri edge I've ever tried, it looks very similar to yours and has the same color slurry.

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