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This stone is 6x2-3/8...
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This stone is 6x2-3/8...
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Another pic.Have to say this is a great finisher and didn't pay a fortune for it, without a box or label.I carved a quick box out of some pine to protect it,nothing fancy.Thanks for the likes.
Barbers Delight Quality 6x2inch with three layers:
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Thuringian Bout:
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Slurries in Barber Delight Style:
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Barbers Delight Dual Color:
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Beautiful - 3 layers, never seen that before...fantastic stones.
Here's an interesting one, "The Fox No. 44 Extra Soft Water Hone and Rubber", in the original wooden box. Essentially, this is a Barber's Delight, is easily as nice as my BD, and might even be a tad nicer. I've been doing some refreshes using the stone, and the results are crisp, sharp and smooth with only about 15-20 laps.
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Yeah seems they often used dual layered stones for those:
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I did not know that - I haven't tried to remove my stone from the wooden base, I'd heard that they were two layered as well....
What are your observations regarding the Fox.No. 44, know you are far more well versed than I on them.
Do you have any video's with them? :-)
My new little mon cherry:
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This little guy together with my coti help me getting rid of the „I need big stones for razor honing“ thinking :)
Regards
Philipp
Yellow Green Escher 10 Inch..
This one is a DSG Stone (Deutsche Schleifmaterialien Gesellschaft, Steinach).
Produces amazing edges.
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Beautiful looking rock with an awesome label. :cry:
Really like when a cool thread I haven't seen before gets revived. :rock:
Nice hone JOB!
Man that one is perfect. 10", dual layer and an uncommon label. Very nice.
wow beautiful!!!!!!
Might as well add mine to the group.
Blue green. barbers delight. No lable, found at a flea market for $15
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Yeah..no worries of ever wearing it out.!
I prefer honing with rock in hand, and it fits mine perfectly.
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Pictured with my little, dark blue Thurigan.
9x2 yellow green, dual layer. Some pencil scribble on the side.
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Very nice additions here and thanks for all who are keeping this thread alive!
My addition to the show is this old chunk of rock. It is the cutend of a typical slate plate from the old miners. This cutend has a length of nearly 40 cm, which represents the width of the plates, which had been between 50 and 100 cm in length. Thickness is between 4 and 5 cm. From these plates that had been stroke out from the layer in the quarry, the whetstones had been cut.
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You can see that the blue layer of the combo has a brown natural skin, means either that the blue layer was only about 2-2,5 cm thick, that a natural cut runs through the layer or - most probably - the blue layer reached ground level, the outer side undergoes a typical alteration at free ambient conditions.
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On the upper part of the yellow-green layer you can see chissel marks, means that the yellow layer was wider, but the plate was devided here, so that blue and yellow green layers did have approx. the same width:
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Hope that helps a little bit in understanding how these whetstones have been mined in the past.
Regards to all
Peter
Peter how far are you concerned about customers or cooperation Partners in „especially Selecting“ qualities of their future stock? On one hand i believe this is a fact of a good marketing, on the other hand is selecting qualities to name here „Dual Layered“ Combination Stones as they must have been known as „the Best Qualities“ is also a kind of making a decision before buying fex. dark-blue stones?
Where we all know that dark-blue stomes are not really „bad“ and their performance is also really good...
Edit: BTW...missed it....awesome addition as always Peter!! Thanks!
Guess that explains the inclusion, in the darker side of mine.
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It gives no ill affect, when honed on.
Hi Sebastian,
not sure if I get your question right. Of course for the trading companies, the color question was also a marketing issue. The son of the last shotfirer of the Escher company who I met years ago, told me that the yellow-green/ blue combination stone was „created“ as an answer to the double layered coticule stones, which were already well know and widely used in the 19th century. So from this point of view, clearly a marketing strategy.
On the other hand, the mining of layers and therefor colors in the thuringian whetstone quarries happened in certain steps.
I reported that somewhere in an older thread I think - there have been 3 steps in mining at the thuringian whetstone quarries.
In total, the old miners dealth with 167 layers of whetstone, who were embedded in a total of 274 layers of clay slates.
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However, in the first phase of mining, only 10 layers (no. 64 to 74) have been quarried. These were mainly green layers and a few blue ones. From approx. middle oft he 19th century layers no. 75 to 121 were mined, herein a lot of yellow and yellow green layers. So the combination stones have been from this period of mining. After approx. 1920, the layers no. 123-184 have been exploited, because the older layers could not be reached anymore with reasonable efforts. The useable layers from no. 123-184 were mainly of blue color.
So looking at the different phases in mining of thuringian whetstones, you can basicly say, that in the first period from 1807 to maybe middle of the 19th century, mainly green thuringians were sold, the yellow greens came up in the second phase and in the late period of mining after 1920 more blue stones have been sold.
Of course this is only to be seen as a main indication and stones of each color have been sold from the second phase of mining on.
Regards Peter
I think Hatzicho is the only member here who has more thanks than posts.
Keep up the good work Peter!
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The interesting thing is that the darker layer was not finished, with saw marks...
Just so I completely understand, does it matter what colour they are or are the different colours different hones (better finishers etc).