Thread: Escher hone on eBay!

The stone is now at US $414.99!!! Talk about a "Hone Rush"!!!

Hmmm, could be the photography, but it doesn't look "yellow green" to me...Do you think that people might be "forging" Eschers?????

Peeling the label off of a "real" Escher", then pasting it onto any old CHEAP soft grey stone....?????

I dunno, doesn't the Chinese water stone do pretty much the same job?

Just to torture you guys, I remember a million years ago, when I had a machine shop, I bought several old fine yellow green stones that I bought for $3, $4, $5 a piece I remember grumbling about paying $10 for the really large stone that I used for lapping lathe/milling machine ways/beds... I used the smaller ones for sharpening my lathe and milling machine bits...

I remember "bitching" about having to use them "wet" with a water slurry, and wishing I had the more "modern" man-made stones that used oil....

The guy who sold them to me figured that the stones had to be over 100 years old...

I remember they came in these ratty old cardboard boxes with fancy German labels, but I threw the boxes out and put them in "new" plastic containers..

I liked keeping my machine shop clean and neat, and I had no time for grubby old cardboard boxes with funny German labels... but I remember the name, "Escher"!!!

I figured that these stones weren't as good as the "newfangled" man-made stones, but since I didn't have the money to buy "new", I had to settled for this old "sh$t".....

If only I knew....

Tony

Tony, if only any of us knew not only about this but about many things! Like Wal-Mart stock, California and Hawaii land prices and a million other things!

Originally Posted by rgdominguez

Tony, if only any of us knew not only about this but about many things! Like Wal-Mart stock, California and Hawaii land prices and a million other things!

Hell, I would be happy with learning to talk to women a few years sooner...

Or had the good sense never to talk to my wife.....




Finally, the smile Gods have smiled on me...

<<<I figured that these stones weren't as good as the "newfangled" man-made stones, but since I didn't have the money to buy "new", I had to settled for this old "sh$t".....>>>

Funny how we often long for the newest technology only to miss out on the real deal.


Your story reminds me of my Grandfather. Back in the late 1960's he decided to sell his '49 Buick Roadmaster. Another local oldtimer wanted it since he already had one and figured this one was nicer than his. They agreed on $200. My Grandfather delivered the car across the river, got paid and got a lift back home. Once there, his son, my uncle, asked about the money. My granfather commented he stopped at the bank on the way home to get "real money" as the oldtimer paid him in those old fashioned silver dollars......200 of them in a sack, and "nobody uses them anymore".

If only he knew

Tony

This is going off topic, but it's a good story too.

The mother of a friend of ours once had a complete set of coloured wine / spirit glasses that she didn't like. She got them from her mother or grandmother and they were old but still mint.

Eventually she threw them in the glass bin at the recycling park because they were occupying too much space in the cupboard.

Apparently she had never hear of the manufacturer named.... Val Saint Lambert....

That was one horribly expensive handmade Crystal set shattering to pieces....

Our friend really turned white when we carefully explained to her how much money went down the drain that day. VSL is a Belgian manufacturer of handmade crystal. Think of Mastro Livi, but for crystal sets.
They make excellent cognac glasses and whisky tumblers that I really would like to be able to afford.

When I sold off my machine shop, I sold the Bridgeport milling machine and the Southbend lathe to another machine shop in the area, and I think I tossed in the bits, and the stones, and various accessories with the deal... So the next guy in the story got the Eschers for FREE....

That was almost 30 years ago. I wonder where they are now???

Maybe they ended up in some landfill somewhere, or maybe they're still floating around some machine shop in Queens New York, or for sale at some flea market, or junk-yard for some lucky guy to spot & pickup for $4.00 each, and then sell on eBay for $400.00....

Such is life...