Thread: New arrivals - new questions

If that's an oiled Translucent, you're in for a treat once you've got it cleaned up, flattened (Praying for you already ), and polished/burnished properly. Nice find.

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Thanks guys for your input.
In the case of the first stone there was, as says in Germany, "the wish the father of thought" (do not know whether there is a comparable speech in English). Amazing that I got a useful sharpness for my straight on the stone, but probably one get with a good coti-slurry from each old sofa a good hone ...
The Arki I will lap properly as recommended and then times with Ö operate

Originally Posted by Addison

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Yes SIR!

Nice stones, I really like the second one. I have a stone that looks similar to the second stone and I've been wondering what it is for a while now. I'll try to get a picture up on here.

Congratulations thank you for sharing. The first does look man made maybe German Extrafein? Stone tailings and dust from natural stone cuttings were often recycled, reconstituted. The second looks to be a natural old translucent Arkansas stone. Unless it is one of the local German Troutstones. Hatzicho or Doorsch may have more info on these. Check under all the oil flaps. Enjoy.

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Mike

Hi eddyerckx,

I agree with the suggestions that already have been made. First stone is clearly not a thuringian but an artificial whetstone. Second one is a (most probably) translucent arkansas.

Originally Posted by eddymerckx

The question then would be how such a Novaculite (Arkansas) could have reached Thuringia.

How these arks reached the thuringian whetstone companies - I already wrote something to this issue here:
http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...as-stones.html

Originally Posted by eddymerckx

"the wish the father of thought" (do not know whether there is a comparable speech in English)

In Dutch we have the same saying. The English need, as usually, fewer words. "Wishful thinking" comes pretty close.

I'm under the impression that getting a "Butterscotch" tinted translucent is as good as they come.
Enjoy!

This is the hone I have that I thought looks similar to the second hone. Looking at the pictures side by side this one is colored a little differently or it could be the lights. I've been wondering about this one and not sure if it's appropriate to share it in this thread or if I should have started a new thread. Since the conversation was already going I just decided here.

Originally Posted by MODINE

Congratulations thank you for sharing. The first does look man made maybe German Extrafein? Stone tailings and dust from natural stone cuttings were often recycled, reconstituted. The second looks to be a natural old translucent Arkansas stone. Unless it is one of the local German Troutstones. Hatzicho or Doorsch may have more info on these. Check under all the oil flaps. Enjoy.

Sächsischer Oelstein https://razorlovestones.wordpress.co...cher-oelstein/



Mike

There are more, indeed. And i have save them ad home. They are very fouled so I hat to clean them up first. 2 of them looking very attrctive, glued in wooden paneels