Thread: Took a gamble on what I thought was a thuri. Think I won

Took a gamble on junk box full of clipper heads. Spotted a stone that looked the right dimensions of thuri. Could make out faint saw marks so needless to say I took a shot at it. Stone showed up yesterday covered in decades worth of gunk and dirt. I was disappointed at first because it looked to not be what I thought. I took it to the DMT and started lapping and then BOOM, paydirt! A beautiful green slurry raised right up and under the gunk is what seems to be a multi-layered Thuri! It almost looks as if there is a Blue, light green, and YG layer in the stone but its hard to tell. The stone was chamfered on one side that looks to have been a repair to a large chip or broken off piece. I lapped one side and gave it a test on a razor that recently wasnt' up to snuff. It gave results equivalent to a LG bout i purchased off peter last year. I began to lap the other side but have a chip to lap out so I put it off until later today. The stone measures 4-7/8" x 1 15/16" on the wide side and 1 6/8" on the thinner lapped side. Seems to be barbers delight dimensions but alas no box or label. Still it was quite a bargain for the price. If it's not a thuri then it at least gives edges like one. I'll try and get better pics later today.

Nice score, congrats!

every time I gamble on something I get junk , sounds like you grabbed something that may work for you !!

Nice score! I get a lot of grungy unidentifiable mystery stones from flea markets and such, some are junk but now and then some cool ones emerge from the grunge. Got this one a while back and only recently cleaned it up.

Originally Posted by eKretz

Nice score! I get a lot of grungy unidentifiable mystery stones from flea markets and such, some are junk but now and then some cool ones emerge from the grunge. Got this one a while back and only recently cleaned it up.

Wow looks sweet. How does it cut?

It's outstanding. Cuts crazy fast on slurry for such a fine stone.It will polish up to a pretty high mirror on straight water but still pulls a small amount of swarf. I put up a hone I.D. thread and consensus seems to be that it's a Vosgienne stone. You can kind of make out the color in the middle pic - it's a sort of reddish purple, and slurries a very light purple-red. Really pretty stone, and apparently pretty rare.