Thread: Another help with hone ID please

Hi Kristian in my opening post I was going to comment that the underside had a slate like appearance.
It's 12:40am here so I will get some better photos later today and will also search about making a slurry.
Thanks momma

My swedenstein back dry and front lapped and dampened with water.

Looks pretty close I think.


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It looks like a thuringian to me.

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Originally Posted by aaron1234

It looks like a thuringian to me.

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Mine or the topic-one? Mine is a Sweedenstein, wich is also a thuringian.

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Kristian


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Originally Posted by Kristian

Mine or the topic-one? Mine is a Sweedenstein, wich is also a thuringian.

Regards

Kristian


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Topic stone. I would really like to see some slurry on that particular stone to be shure though. I'm currently basing my judgment on the way the sides look.




But that sweedensteien is beautiful!!!

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Okay, I don't think I went very good with the slurry
I didn't want to do the wrong thing (which I probably did )
Pic 2 Full sunlight hone with water It was very hot here today and the water was evaporating very quickly.
Pic 1 Maybe a bit of slurry taken in shade
Pic 3 The big one in the wooden box is the one that we have been discussing here. Went and foraged in my Dad's shed for a slurry stone and found all these in box at the back of a cupboard. Dad died 2 years ago, these could have come from his fathers shed. Dad had lots of stuff that he never bought, he may have bought the little white HF-43 Hard Arkansas and the triangle one sitting on top.
Tell me if I did the wrong thing: to make the slurry I had a piece of glass with 2000 grit wet & dry. Wet the paper thoroughly and worked the hone around. It took a bit to get this small result.

Well from the slurry I say it's a thuringian hone. It's a very fine sharpening stone. It's used to finish honing a razor.

Most people use these hones after a honing progression on synthetic stones finishing on a 8000K grit stone. The thuri is used after that. About 30 fine laps with only water. It leaves a razor fantastic sharp.

You can't grit rate a natural stone. But most people, myself included, believe it finish +12.000K.

The most known thüringian hones, are the one labeled Escher. There are roughly 160 layers of thuries and 120 layers are suitably for razor hones.

It comes in many colors but frankly, there isn't much difference. I have about 10-15 myself.

You'll need to lap the hone flat, to use it properly.

Start with a completely flat surface, like a plate of Glas. Then use water/sand paper starting at grit 100, then 150, 400 and finish on grit 1000. Then you are good to go. All scratches must be removed.

Make sure to round the edge of the hone, or you will scratch the razor.

It is possible honing a razor on just this hone, without a synthetic progression. gssixgun has made a fine YouTube video on that. Search one stone honing with thuringian.

Congratulation with the hone!


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Thank you Kristian, you have been a great help
would mine be considered on the large size for a hone?
8 7/8" long x 2 3/4" wide x 7/8" high
Weight: 2.305lbs (converted from 1046g)
You wouldn't want to drop this one on your foot

Yes. It's a very fine and large hone. Seldom seem in that size, thou I have a few that's larger. Yours is perfect for razors, since it has the same size as most blades, making it perfect for new honers.

Here's some of mine larger ones. From left, an labeled Escher, my brick-hone an tile-hone. Both names I made up to describe them.

There are black thuringians. Very fine finishers!

I can't imagine why anyone needed hones that big, but I found them and saved them. They are great for razors. I gave about 10$ each. A true find.

Regards Kristian.


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Yep it's a thuringian

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