Thread: La Pratique razor hone

Is the stone in the first post a silica abrasive stone or is a garnet abrasive stone?

Originally Posted by DaveW

Is the stone in the first post a silica abrasive stone or is a garnet abrasive stone?

If it is a BBW: yes. It is in the mail now, will let you guys know ASAP.

The seller of this hone sent me an email through ebay advising me that he is a member here and saw the opening post. He let me know he does not object to me showing the picture that I had copied and pasted from the ebay listing but that he would appreciate that I mention it is not a picture I took. His ebay member name is drpcollect, here is a link to the ebay listing: La Pratique Natural Straight Razor and de Razor Blade Water Hone Belgium | eBay

Originally Posted by Kees

His ebay member name is drpcollect

That is Thomas, good guy. I know him through corresponding about Eschers and other Thuringans. He is an expert on the subject.

Originally Posted by Kees

If it is a BBW: yes. It is in the mail now, will let you guys know ASAP.

I mention that only with curiosity because BBWs are a marginal razor stone, but if one was found with a finer grain, it may make a fabulous razor finisher.

Originally Posted by DaveW

I mention that only with curiosity because BBWs are a marginal razor stone, but if one was found with a finer grain, it may make a fabulous razor finisher.

I would be very surprised if it were a BBW. I guess the decorations of the wrapper are Jugendstil aka art nouveau. However, the BBW has only recently been recognised as a hone.

If you buy a lot of old glued combos, you quickly see that you chances of getting salm or even la lorraine as the backing are pretty decent.

Regular BBW is honestly not all that hot as a hone. It's not that fine, it's slow, and that is the good bits, the bad are nearly useless imo.

I think it is thuri stone.

Originally Posted by Kees

I would be very surprised if it were a BBW. I guess the decorations of the wrapper are Jugendstil aka art nouveau. However, the BBW has only recently been recognised as a hone.

Kees, i can only partly share this.....when we agree that the Layer "La Lorraine" is a BBW Layer (mentioned in Henk Bos Grinding and Honing Part 4). We know that these stones have been sold under der Trademarks of F&Co. (Fassbinder & Co., Solingen) and under the Label "La Lorraine". I know that these stones are "La Lorraine" because i own and owned quite few of these stones....

Also F.G.B.C. better said it seems that also the precedessors company sold the stones under the label M.P.O.P. "La Lorraine", which couldnt be proved till to date. But iam sure and this is my "personal" interpretation that we talk about stones from the "la Lorraine" layer...

Actually they have not been sold as razor hones "explicitely" but as hones for fine instruments and tools, as many other razor hones have been sold...so if we count stones from the Layer "La Lorraine" as BBW stones, we need accept that these were used as razor hones also in the past. From what ive read Burton Rox was the company selling/marketing the stones of the La Lorraine layer first...