Thread: Thuringian – Blue Belgian Whetstone combination Hone

I got quite a lot of thin thuringian whetstone plates, so I thought of how to create a reasonable combination hone with a good backing to supplement the Thuringian endfinisher.
When I met Maurice at Ardennes last month, we spoke about that and what we can use for the backside. I was hoping to get some Lorraine for the backing but at the moment there is no Lorraine to be mined at the Ol’Preu quarry. Maurice is exploring the Regné quarry right now, but it will take some time before he can start regular mining there. Focus will then be – beside the known Coticule veins (and some new ones like the Myrtilles he has already introduced) also the Lorraine stones.

However, for our first Belgian/German joint project we decide to glue the Thuri to a BBW.
Here is how it looks like:



The result is a nearly 10 x 2 ‘’ - light green Thuringian hone on BBW.

That is really cool! Now that it's all done, feel free to send it my way!!

Very cool, thank you for sharing

That is awesome solution Peter.
I wonder if it would be possible to use a coticule as a backing stone. That might be more versatile or at least faster hone.

Excellent Peter. What adhesive did you use?
MIke

Originally Posted by MODINE

Excellent Peter. What adhesive did you use?
MIke

That's a special stone glue from the company Würth.

Originally Posted by mainaman

That is awesome solution Peter.
I wonder if it would be possible to use a coticule as a backing stone. That might be more versatile or at least faster hone.

That would be my preference. The BBW being stout enough to reinforce a coticule, which is apparently soft/brittle, I wonder if the Thuringan is stout enough ? I'd bet that it is, considering that it does fine as a stand alone stone.

That's a beautiful stone.

A BBW works well too! Very consistent, if slowwwwww. I like that BBWs are harder than cotis even though coticules give me killer edges.

Originally Posted by mainaman

That is awesome solution Peter.
I wonder if it would be possible to use a coticule as a backing stone. That might be more versatile or at least faster hone.

Yeah that is why I would prefer a Lorraine as backing as I already wrote. The Lorraine is much faster than the BBW and gives an edge that is already shave-ready, while not beeing to comfortable. But the combination together wth a thuri is fantastic. Using a coticule is of course possible, but depends on the vein and quality of the coti. Using a good vein would also give a very "expensive" combination.

Nice one Peter.