Thread: My new Escher is here...

Originally Posted by Scipio

Using a C12K slurry stone would IMHO be preferable than the Mueller, reason being that it is harder therefore will not 'shed' any particles, rather the only slurry is coming off the Escher. Any harder stone in fact would act as a slurry stone.

I've used my toma nagura before for a slurry stone and I'm pretty sure all the slurry is from the Escher. I also use a little pocket sized DMT 325 and it works just fine as well.

Originally Posted by GeauxLSU

Now, I guess I'll be busting my butt to get an Escher... How's the Thuringian rate?

I've had some good ones in the past. Vintage thuringans, like Hohenzollern, Droescher and Celebrated ..... the Celebrated with the cup with E&Co on the label was made by Escher and some think the Fox was too. Not sure about the Fox but it may well have been.

Some Fox are yellow green or light green eschers.
specially larger ones.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I've had some good ones in the past. Vintage thuringans, like Hohenzollern, Droescher and Celebrated ..... the Celebrated with the cup with E&Co on the label was made by Escher and some think the Fox was too. Not sure about the Fox but it may well have been.

Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl

Some Fox are yellow green or light green eschers.
specially larger ones.

ChrisL sold a Hohenzollern to Kees that I heard is a great stone. A yellow/green.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

ChrisL sold a Hohenzollern to Kees that I heard is a great stone. A yellow/green.

My Fox was a Y/G Escher, but I am really happy with my big Light-green. Jimmy you know which one I am talking about.

I hope we see pics of the Escher that Paul is test driving now.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

back in the 1980s the old barbers in Newark, NJ showed me how to hone on a coticule. The three individual barbers who demonstrated their technique to me all used the Lather King hot lather machine to put a layer of lather on the coticule. None of them ever mentioned slurry ..... or lapping/flattening for that matter. All of them also used Swaty barber hones dry and only for touching up during a shave. Just mentioning it to say that the 70 or so year old barbers in that part of the world at that particular time did it that way. Personally I find soap on a coticule too slick for my hand. YMMV.

As some may no i'm in the barber trade and i have a shop that is now ben established 77 years , i've owned the shop for 16 years. Jim who still works thursday mornings and is 80 years old and his dad before him used a coticule, i have seen t , it was wrapped in a wrag and worn nearly to the slate and it was well dished. Now i asked him about slurry stone and slurry . he did not have a clue what i was on a bout. they used there coticule with water . Now the wrag was coverd in yellow powder, i can only asume it was slurry, caused by honing, auto slurry. As they placed the hone on the cloth. another barber in austrailia said he never used slurry stone. he call ed his coti a soap stone. he set the edge on his little combo norton, one of the small ones, and he said he just finished on soap stone with lather. two barbers in the later years and neiter of used slurry.

Originally Posted by Lynn

Try both Gary and then try slurry to water.

well i tryed water only on my mates ti, and i was very impressed, thats now going back to him, so i just used light slurry on my john clarkes , i'll give that a whirl, then i'll try just water, then i will do a slurry to water, and compare . i will post my findings . coming of water was very silky, so at the moment i would settle for that. its only my first razor .

well i could not wait, i just had a shave of slurry and sham was right, you can shave of slurry, the edge was perfectly smooth, i'd find it hard which one to choose water or slurry they both worked. So may be i'll just use slurry then water, best of both worlds. If i was asked which edge was the smoothest, i would be hard pushed to say, as both edges are very nice, there is defanatley a feel to escher that i realy liked, mayb e because it differant i liked it. the other thing is there so nice to hone on the surface with slurry and water is hard to beat.

Originally Posted by GeauxLSU

Now, I guess I'll be busting my butt to get an Escher... How's the Thuringian rate?

Yeah, You probably should. Like most things, there's a bit of a learning curve, but once you learn how to stroke it, your hooked for life.

Originally Posted by gary haywood

he call ed his coti a soap stone.

All of those old barbers in North NJ called their coticules a "soap stone."