Thread: The Celebrated Water Razor Hone

My experience, a narrow hone does not really help much with problematic blades. As Dylan stated I find that a narrow stone will help being more careful with the sroke, but for me that is all it does.
I hone everything on regular size hones, and only occasionally go to narrow side of my norton 1k, and a coticule.
I have one of those 1x5 thuris and although it gives very good edges I do not like the narrow size.

I recently purchased a "Crest Brand Water Hone" from a member here. It is 6 X 2", Otherwise, it is identical to the ubiquitous "Celebrated" 5 X 1 hones -- same wooden box, same hinge, same clasp (I have one of those, too).

Haven't tried it yet. It is lighter than my Celebrated -- gray-green(?). I suspect it is from the same source. Anyone else have one of these?

Originally Posted by pcb01

I recently purchased a "Crest Brand Water Hone" from a member here. It is 6 X 2", Otherwise, it is identical to the ubiquitous "Celebrated" 5 X 1 hones -- same wooden box, same hinge, same clasp (I have one of those, too).

Haven't tried it yet. It is lighter than my Celebrated -- gray-green(?). I suspect it is from the same source. Anyone else have one of these?

Pics? I have seen Tam o Shanter stones in these cases too on ebay...

nice find on that stone!

Originally Posted by Disburden

Pics? I have seen Tam o Shanter stones in these cases too on ebay...

It's not a ToS. First, macro- and microscopically it has a very uniform (not speckled) appearance. Second, the label in the box is similar to the Celebrated Thurry label. Third, I finished an Eagle Brand razor on it over the weekend, and shaved with it this morning. The "feel" of the edge and sharpness was identical to my Celebrated Thurry.

Interestingly, the slurry is unusual -- "speckled" might be a good adjective. You can see the bits of stone in the water, kind of like the gold leaf in the bottom of that liquor they sell as "goldschlager" or something like that (not as large, of course).

I know how you gents are about honep**n -- I'll see if I can get a picture up this weekend.

Originally Posted by Disburden

All the thuringian stones I have seen in those cases are the same 1X5 size.

Narrow stones are actually very good for handling warped or smiling blades.

When I use mine I build a slurry from my DMT on it and then use it, I like my Eschers with a slurry same goes with Thuri stones. I use more laps than 10 or 20. Test and see what is best for you, there's no real rules of the hone with these old rocks.

Here, just for your knowledge. Here's a lot I'm hopefully acquiring Thursday if all goes well. Certainly larger than 1x5.

If it says E&S on the trophy cup you have an Escher.

It sure does. E&s9 it looks like that's a good thing than eh? First time hone buyer here. Was just trying to look up info on it and came across this while I was looking. I know the swaty is a good barber hone as well. And I'm not positive what the thin one is yet. I'll keep you posted on if I win it, but it's local and not much interest yet. So I'm thinking I'm getting them at a steal.lol

Nice! be sure and report back. I don't believe I've ever seen one with that type of label&box that was larger than 5"x1". Looks to be nice and thick too

The wording in the cup neither says E&S nor E&s9. It means E&Co and the hone was distributed by the company Escher&Co. So a real Escher stone. E&Co and Escher&Son have been two completely different companies from midlle of the 19th century as I explained several times elsewhere. Both delivered "Escher" stones though.