Thread: Thuringian Beautys

This thread is about the beauty of thuringian stones. I am not talking about honing capabilities, hardness, grit or what else- just about the beautiful look of these stones.

From all the thuringians I have in my collection, the stones with a color change within the stone are the most fantastic ones.

Sometimes the color change (mostly from yellow green to blue or light blue to dark blue) is not along a defined layer line but runs in various directions through the stone.

Then you have stains and spots in the surface and the stone appears to have a certain depth effect. It feels that you can look into the stone. It is like you are looking in a deep cloudy sky.

That’s why I call these stones “cloudy thuringians”.

Here are some examples.






Of course the pictures show not even roughly the real beauty of the stones.







The following one was my first thuringian ever. It was an ebay catch and a shot into the blue (don’t know if you have that term in English language). The stone of course was not labeled and I had only seen one thuringian before.
So as the stone was on the way I wonder how would a thuringian look like and how can I decide if this stone will be a thuringian or not.
Than it arrived, I opened the parcel and suddenly new – this must be a thuringian! If not this stone, not any other stone could be such a great hone.




Maybe - if I had found a simple carborundum stone in this first parcel – I may have never got this crazy HAD with thuringian stones the last couple of years!

.....to be continued....