Anyone any ideas on this hone?
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Anyone any ideas on this hone?
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Looks like a thuringian. Good finisher.
There are many stones that are gray but are not Thuringian.Quote:
Originally Posted by rjezuit
@ OP are those purple(?) features figuring in the stone?
I was going by the shiny top, gray color and whitish streaks on the side. It also looks to be soft by the scratches visible. And the apparent size. Maybe I'm wrong.
Looks like brown Thuringian.
I have one like this and ask the same question on this forum. These are great hones but small ones.
Here is mine.
Best Regards,
JSZ
Lol, it looks a bit too similar like yours doesn't it :DQuote:
Originally Posted by UrsaMaior
I don't see the resemblance with a so called brown Thuringian. I question if it's even a Thuringian, there are other soft stones out there. A wet close-up would help.
Here is the link :
http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...tml#post681428
Have fun.
BR
JSZ
This is what I believe is a Brown Thuringian. Although the base colour on mine differs, it has those similar orange/pink markings. An authority on hones has used mine and believes it to be a Thuringian.
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This one is dark brown and makes yellow slurry.Quote:
Originally Posted by mainaman
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Originally Posted by UrsaMaior
It doesn't look like my Thuringians with brown patches, nor like my Vosgiennes (Vosgienne is in my opinion a correcter name for 'Brown Thuringians'). They are a very uniform purplish brown (see also here and here).Quote:
Originally Posted by Scipio
Maybe so, but you're going to have a hard time getting us Americans to say Vosgiennes!Quote:
Originally Posted by Oldengaerde
Have you a picture of the slurry?
I knew I had a problem when I began to spell Hohenzollern correctly without a reference or spell check. :gaah::rofl2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Utopian
Foh-ZHENNQuote:
Originally Posted by Utopian
At first it looked yellowish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scipio
And then?
Mine makes a slurry of the same consistency as my Thuringian and Escher, however it has a brown tint to it, where as the others are pretty much white with a hint of grey.
Here is more pics, wet and one with slurry. It turn out to be very good finisher, my mistake was to holding the stone in one hand and hone with another one . L.O.L. It so small at least for me that I could not put keen edge . But once I put the hone in the rubber holder everything is fine great for travel/vacation.
JSZ
Mine is the same. Apparently they are Schwedensteins, from a mountain in Saxony, Germany. So a 'cousin' of Thuringians. Very similar.
Let's see. On the basis of the pictures: Thuringian, brown Thuringian, and the newly discussed Schwedenstein. Even with the connotations 'dark brown' and 'yellow slurry'.
In the above-cited thread it was described alongside this reposted pic as "The pic shows some blue into it but it is moltly dark brown and some redish spots" and "It cuts well but the finish is not as good as Escher" http://straightrazorpalace.com/attac...e-08790001.jpg
That lead to the the assumptions, one more boldly stated than the other: Thuringian and Frankonian.
Let's add some more descriptives, from two eBay ads with the pictures in the OP:
- sort of variegated coloring, mainly grey and brown, with a stripes sort of pattern
- size 5 3/4 x 1 ¼ by 3/8 thick (145 mm x 30 mm x10 mm.
- gives a very good edge - somewhere between 12,000 and 16,000k
