Thread: What's the appeal of Eschers?

Originally Posted by dylandog

By the way, do you find much of a difference between the belgians and the regular blue/gray eschers?

So far - it made a relatively big difference on one razor. Period. Other than that instance - hard for me to notice anything major.

For a while I used to do Coticule and then some Escher - but I am past this as results didn't really seem to justify the hassle. Lately I mostly use a kosher coticule; occasionally I switch to a greenish (not blue-gray) Escher.

I am not an expert myself, and cannot be compared to Joe Lerch and Randy!

Cheers
Ivo

Originally Posted by dylandog

Good advice LX.

Also, anyone who's suffering from HAD ought to watch LX's video.

He's got a little coticule bout that he does virtually all his sharpening on. He does a masterful X on it, and fast, without once lifting the spine, for about ten minutes.

A reminder that it's not about which tools you own but which ones you've mastered. Made me want to sell all the hones I've been acquiring.

Reminded me why I got into this thing: simplicity & self-sufficiency. Bravo LX!

Thank you very much for the compliment. I have to say though that I'll never (ever) cliam that my way is THE way. As you might have noticed in the video all I say in it is that this is the way I do it. Others might find another approach a lot more effective though. And I have to admit....if I had the money for it I'd most likely have already sprung for a bigger one and a blue belgian. But for now this will do just fine.

I'm just happy to be able to do this after only a year of straight shaving.

Originally Posted by dylandog

Good advice LX.

Also, anyone who's suffering from HAD ought to watch LX's video.

He's got a little coticule bout that he does virtually all his sharpening on. He does a masterful X on it, and fast, without once lifting the spine, for about ten minutes.

A reminder that it's not about which tools you own but which ones you've mastered. Made me want to sell all the hones I've been acquiring.

Reminded me why I got into this thing: simplicity & self-sufficiency. Bravo LX!

Could some one poit me in the direction of LX's vid .. I have a little yellow coticule in my mass of hones I find myself using more than anything
Met vriendelijke groet - Garry

It's in the honing section under:"coticule honing video coming" I believe.

Originally Posted by Laager

The fact that they work and work very, very well.

I can speak from experience, being someone whom owns multiple very large yellow green Eschers (and they are not for sale, even at Rich's budget level).

As size seems to matter: how large is very large?

Originally Posted by Laager

The fact that they work and work very, very well.

But do they work very, very differently from coticules, or the regular gray eschers, or the newly quarried thuringians for that matter? Just curious.

EL (elbonator) tested a medium blue/grey NOS Thuringen (escher) for me and he already owns on of my Hunsrueck hones. His seems to feel they were very similar in grit but that the newer Hunsrueck was a much faster cutting stone. For him at least, the Hunsrueck was the one he liked better.

Supposedly the lighter and greenish stones are softer and maybe that makes them release the garnets into the slurry faster making them the "prefered" stone for some. I doubt any great difference will be seen though.

I've got a green/yellow Escher/Thurnigen marked Fox and a light blue NOS Thurnigen I'll send up to EL for testing as well. he has far more experience than I in this so will give a better trial than I could.

Tony

Thanks Tony!

Originally Posted by Kees

As size seems to matter: how large is very large?

Over 9.5" long.

Someone will be very envious! Of such long hones I tend not to use the whole length: about 7" is ideal for me.

And how wide are they? Especially the longer Eschers tend to be a bit narrow.