Thread: Escher loved natural combos!

My bout,

My other combo was probably barbers gem but had little accident before I got it. It's
5x2 1/4-1 1/2 and a combo tomo I got from Peter that I think is pretty cool. It is my official travel hone. Lol!

Originally Posted by rideon66

My bout,

It almost look like a coticule, but it's easy to distinguish them while honing, I doubt there is a question that it's not one. The color is too light, looks nice. Is it one of the softer ones?

Originally Posted by Vasilis

It almost look like a coticule, but it's easy to distinguish them while honing, I doubt there is a question that it's not one. The color is too light, looks nice. Is it one of the softer ones?

It is definitely a Thuri and I believe came from Peter, but I actually got it from a online shave shop and it was damaged in shipment so I got it really cheap and just did a repair job on it. It is one of the softer sold as light green with skin on it. Not sure how they tell the light green from the yellow or yellow/green, but after lapping to fix the damage it revealed a lighter blueish section in the middle. Which is why I posted it in this natural combo section. It is easier to see wet. I believe it is really like a barbers delights with the yellow green blue only not in the usual order as seen in the barbers delights.
Of all the Thuris I have had this one is my favorite and gives the best edges.

Escher Barber's Delight....spectacular stone.

There's an easy way to tell if your stone is light-green or yellow-green. Peter told me about it - generate some slurry on the stone in question and transfer it to a piece of black paper. Once the slurry dries, compare it to a piece of white paper and see what color it is. Slurry from light-green stones will turn nearly white when dry, slurry from yellow-green stones will be somewhat yellow once dry.

Originally Posted by eKretz

There's an easy way to tell if your stone is light-green or yellow-green. Peter told me about it - generate some slurry on the stone in question and transfer it to a piece of black paper. Once the slurry dries, compare it to a piece of white paper and see what color it is. Slurry from light-green stones will turn nearly white when dry, slurry from yellow-green stones will be somewhat yellow once dry.

......another is to look at the label, sure fire way to tell.....

Ha! You kill me.

Originally Posted by eKretz

There's an easy way to tell if your stone is light-green or yellow-green. Peter told me about it - generate some slurry on the stone in question and transfer it to a piece of black paper. Once the slurry dries, compare it to a piece of white paper and see what color it is. Slurry from light-green stones will turn nearly white when dry, slurry from yellow-green stones will be somewhat yellow once dry.

That's a new way to use the "spore print" I'm using for wild mushrooms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore_print
I would have never thought it. There might even be further uses for it in the natural hones community, identifying other types of stones as well.
(By the way, you make it yourself, no advertisement here, you need only a printer)

Here is my Hybrid, I take it to be blue/ green in the daylight.
Good cutting and polishing hone.




~Richard