Thread: Where to find Thuringians and Eschers hones?

The 'Eschers' from Timbertools may come from thüringen but their 'new Thuringians' come from Hunsrück. I've seen them rated at 8-10k while vintage Thuringians are much finer.

Timbertools is not the only source for the 'new Thuringians' a few German shops have them as well, cheaper.

I've actually owned two of these new thuringian stones, they were both around 8k level for a natural hone and not smooth to shave with..

Originally Posted by Pithor

As far as I'm aware those on Timbertools are imported from Germany, mined in the Thüringer area, and I've heard that they are good finishers. They are, effectively, the only source for 'new' Thüringian hones. However, as mentioned here, Escher was a company name. Marketing them as Eschers is either ignorant or deceitful.

Being natural stones and all that, I don't quite understand why these get disqualified as easily as they seem to and are deemed inferior to 'vintage' Thüringer stones, which are from the same area, same type of slate and probably formed around the same time. Not to mention that, if there is a variation between thüringer hones, the vintage ones wouldn't be uniform either.

It might even be possible that these MST thüringians are from the same mine/rock as some 'vintage' ones.

I myself found this also rather confusing, as there's also a hone on the net (apparently also from MST) that they (MST) advertise as 'fine natural water hone' but at other places is erroneously advertised as thüringian. It's the second type of stone in the OP link to Timbertools, again advertised as a thüringian, which, according to the MST website, it is not.

Sham's house.

Originally Posted by Scipio

Sham's house.

LOL, good thing my coffee wasn't ready reading this.