Thread: timbertools thuringian

You know, I just thought of something and I have to get this off my chest. Unless somebody takes one of these new Thuringians crushes it analyzes it and does the same thing to an Escher, we have no idea if they're the same. It just dawned on me that these stones are thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years old and if an analysis was done they may very well be made out of the same material which would mean it was all on the grading process. If not, then it was genuinely a different stone, anything wrong with that logic?

i am unclear on the distinctions people make between MST and Mueller, as ive visited a website for MST Mueller, and that makes me wonder if they are one and the same. ive also been told that there are more than one company named mueller in the area. so anyways among all the stones that are being talked about as new thuringians microscopy of the surface shows some of them to be different from eschers. these may be the hunsreuck<sp?> stones being sold as eschers. destructive testing should not be neccessary to determine that some of these are not thuringian.

the old Stone is the old stone.....Thuringian is big with many Mountains

I just honed up my W&B on the New Thuringian. This is the same razor i used for the Duel DT/LM hone. Slury diluted then to water.

Originally Posted by nicknbleeding

I just honed up my W&B on the New Thuringian. This is the same razor i used for the Duel DT/LM hone. Slury diluted then to water.

YES.... and then what???

Originally Posted by Grizzley1

YES.... and then what???

LOL! Im test shaving with her this am. This hobby is torture. My hair wont grow as fast as i would like.

Well i just shaved off of the stone no stropping. Not bad. BBS in 2 passes. The edge was not as smooth as i would have hoped but im thinking that could have been my fault. Too much time with slury and too many laps. But worth more testing. Im also getting very BORED with the one razor i have been using for all of these test. LOL! I also feel that this is the best i can get out of this W&B. I will say less irritation than from the LM. That stone really put a keen edge on.

Originally Posted by nicknbleeding

Well i just shaved off of the stone no stropping. Not bad. BBS in 2 passes. The edge was not as smooth as i would have hoped but im thinking that could have been my fault. Too much time with slury and too many laps. But worth more testing. Im also getting very BORED with the one razor i have been using for all of these test. LOL! I also feel that this is the best i can get out of this W&B. I will say less irritation than from the LM. That stone really put a keen edge on.

okay so here's what you do, try new razor, use the Thurry a little more sparingly, and strop the hell out it. Lately I have come to the conclusion that after you have taken it as far as you think you can with your stones stropping is very important in my opinion. Once I take my razor off the stones, I give them at least 50 laps on linen and 100 on leather, this seems to really help. Sometimes I use my pasted strop and then go to my big SRP strop, since I don't have a microscope. I have to use the shave test and stropping seems to be very important way more than I would've thought, and as I learned from Glen and a few others. You can even strop it on newspaper which will give you a wicked sharp edge, ( I even have a scar to prove it) and I thought the newspaper as a strop was a total load, but it really worked. I'm glad that you Thurry is working out for you, I was using mine yesterday and noticed something that I never had before. When I raise the slurry with a DMT. I noticed the slurry was yellow-green just as many report the Eschers to be so who knows maybe some of the stones are just as good maybe not. I think we need a chemical analysis to get to the bottom of this and unless there is a chemist here willing to take on the challenge. I don't think we'll ever know. LOL
Griz

I will try that but on a diff razor.

As far as I know the stone I have is a Müller Grindstone, like the one Olivia sells. It has very nice feedback, produces a lot of slurry and gives a decent shaving edge. It's seems softer than my coticule.

I lapped the other face of mine a while ago to use with my kitchen knives and I'm really glad I did. It was a joy to use with my carbon steel gyuto, with slurry it cuts faster than my 6k synthetic and on water it finishes higher.