Thread: Escher? - Afraid I screw up...

Label has nothing todo with the package. Later add on.
Lets pray you get something decent.
Best Case vintage thuri
Worst Case a crappy synthetic barber hone

Are you even sure it is a natural and not a barber hone?

Honestly, if it turns out to be the worst case (synthetic barber hone) I think you'd be well within your rights to claim false description and ask for a full refund.

There's no point worrying about it until you get it in your hands Rune. Everything before that point is pure conjecture.

James.

Guess all I have to do is wait and see

I don't worry too much, luckily the seller offers full refund included shipping if I'm for some reason not satisfied with the item.

It came in the mail today, and with my limited knowledge it seems like it could be legit.

I didn't want to lap it before I'm more certain in case I should make a claim to the seller, I just cleaned it a little with a scrubbing sponge.

Compared to my two Thuris it got a similar graining/pattern and the slurry also looks similar, but I shot some pics of it wet and with slurry so maybe you can help me confirm or discard

Looks like the real thing to me and thuri's are notorious to have that white cloudy slurry Enjoy!

Originally Posted by Zephyr

It came in the mail today, and with my limited knowledge it seems like it could be legit.

I didn't want to lap it before I'm more certain in case I should make a claim to the seller, I just cleaned it a little with a scrubbing sponge.

Compared to my two Thuris it got a similar graining/pattern and the slurry also looks similar, but I shot some pics of it wet and with slurry so maybe you can help me confirm or discard

looks like a natural rock to me. more clear in a better photo.

It is going to be impossible to say definitively from a photo. Does one side look like it had a label at one time ? Is one side sort of rough hewn, like it was carved out of a deposit ? I've seen a number of eschers that were very uneven and rough under the back label. Does it have diagonal saw cuts on the long sides ? They typically have a certain amount of that.

More importantly, how does it hone ? Do a few razors on it and see how you like it. No matter what we say you'll never be able to prove it is an escher. If it works well for you it doesn't matter what we call it.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

It is going to be impossible to say definitively from a photo. Does one side look like it had a label at one time ? Is one side sort of rough hewn, like it was carved out of a deposit ? I've seen a number of eschers that were very uneven and rough under the back label. Does it have diagonal saw cuts on the long sides ? They typically have a certain amount of that.

More importantly, how does it hone ? Do a few razors on it and see how you like it. No matter what we say you'll never be able to prove it is an escher. If it works well for you it doesn't matter what we call it.

Can we call it Al? Please, please, pretty please

The underside is uneven, not like it was carved more as it was hand cut. It also has traces that looks like there could have been a label on it at some point.

The sides, all four of them, are pretty smooth, as if they were lapped.

I would call it Bob. That way if you turn it around it will work just as well

So how well does it work?

Originally Posted by Zephyr

The underside is uneven, not like it was carved more as it was hand cut. It also has traces that looks like there could have been a label on it at some point.

Hand cut is as good a description of what I was trying to convey as 'hewn'. Here is a photo of two different eschers on which the back labels washed off and were preserved. I don't know if you can see what I mean by the way the back was on those two in the photo but if yours looks like that than "Al" may indeed by an escher. The apparent round spots are from the rubber shelving sheet I lay them on when I hone. The larger varying colored areas are the depressions from the 'hand cutting' referred to.