Interesting the German unit of measurement is Zoll from this old diagram. Same unit as Heibert Wacker uses for his razors. Another subject in a different thread. Still, interesting.
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Nice, looks to me to be a yellow/green main stone with a dark blue slurry. Hard to tell about the main stone color from a photo though, especially against a dark blue. Here are some links to old threads that might be of interest ;
http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...ing-marks.html
http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...nd-labels.html
http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...ck-labels.html
It is a yellow/green with the dark blue slurry. It's lighter compared to my labeled lightgreen stone and definitely has that hint of yellow running all the way through.
It's a really nice stone to hone on (like all Eschers) I just wish I had a y/g slurry stone. But it's not a real big deal.
That looks very much like an Escher I had, exact same box and exact same labels, here's a pic, light green on top, blue on the bottom, I traded that one:
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IIRC - it definitely was very light coloured stone, pics don't really bring that stark contrast out. Frankly, I had used it for awhile, lent it to a superb honer, and he came away with the same impression I had, that it wasn't the best of the Eschers we had used, was a very, very slow stone, I think it's the light green Escher.
Might have just been my particular stone, but will be interesting to hear how it performs.
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Jimmy, after taking a look at your other threads do you think it could be a Barber's Choice? I feel like the barber's gen stones were Pike distribution specific, but I am just guessing
Phrank, the light colored stone looks much longer than the one I have. I think mine is more similar in shape and the boxing/labeling to the darker stone you show in the top picture.
Can we go back to when these stones were around 20$?