Thread: What's Old, Yellow-Green and polishes steel?

It's certainly a nice looking stone, well done in spotting it.

It looks to me like it will be a really good polishing stone.

If it develops an edge as well as a Belgian coticule, then you have something very special.

Keep us posted.

It's a useless piece of junk. Oddily enough, I like useless pieces of junk and will buy it from you for 10$ :P

Nice find!

If yours is a YG Escher, than a stone I have with no inclusions that's actually bonded to a handmade wooden razor box is also a YG Escher?.


My stone looks identical to one of your first pictures. Mine is quite thin at about 3/8" but same color variation. The strop that's part of this vintage kit I describe is either true russian shell (diamond pattern embossed on the back or a vintage clever imitation).

The stone in the above pic is absolutely silky smooth and does not lap easily.

Chris L

Chris, mine is actually very soft, the lapping removed more material than I really wanted. And the inclusions seem to be softer than the cutting media so they are just a visual difference, no adverse affects to honing.

I tested it back to back with three vintage Coticules, one new Coticule, three vintage Thuringians, the Chinese 12k and my Nakayama Maruka, and it was closest in level of polish to the Nakayama. Whatever this stone is, it's an absolutely wonderful finisher.

These are the two "freebies" I got for buying the barber hone in the second pic.

Nice catch ....... wish things like that would pop up here in the uk

Garry

Originally Posted by Russel Baldridge

Chris, mine is actually very soft, the lapping removed more material than I really wanted. And the inclusions seem to be softer than the cutting media so they are just a visual difference, no adverse affects to honing.

I tested it back to back with three vintage Coticules, one new Coticule, three vintage Thuringians, the Chinese 12k and my Nakayama Maruka, and it was closest in level of polish to the Nakayama. Whatever this stone is, it's an absolutely wonderful finisher.

These are the two "freebies" I got for buying the barber hone in the second pic.

Well well, mister mister. I bid on that same lot. My snipe was set too low. I knew from the pics that the stone had to be a Thuringian. Congrats on the win. I'm glad it went to someone that will use and appreciate it! I'm also glad to hear that the stone performs so well. Score one for less emphasis on the LABEL and actual superb results on an unlabeled stone's performance!

Chris L

The way I figure it, there isn't a stone that passes through ebay that doesn't get spotted by at least 2 SRP members.

So here's to future acquisitions, Cheers.

Edit: I'll be using the first razor I honed with it tonight, we'll see if the visual polish translates to smooth razing in T-minus 10 minutes and counting.

Edit again: Oh, and that other stone is some kind of fine ceramic stone, a finger nail scratch test puts it somewhere around 8k. Took forever to lap.