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05-14-2008, 01:20 AM #1Senior Member
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What's Old, Yellow-Green and polishes steel?
Answer: This stone.
Seriously, what is it?
It polishes better than my coticules and thuringians (as of a quick test). It is 6.5"x1.25"x.375" and is a definite yellow-green color.
But it has some streaking that is uncommon to thuringers, so I'm hesitant to say it's an Escher. It was pretty beat up and two corners really can't be used because they are so worn down that I'd have to lap 1/4 of the stone away to make them usable.
What d'ya think?
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05-14-2008, 01:32 AM #2Hones & Honing
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When you lapped it did it come off as a powder similar to a thuringian? If so, then it is a YG Escher.
You lucky duck!
Randolph Tuttle, a SRP Mentor for residents of Minnesota & western Wisconsin
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05-14-2008, 01:38 AM #3Senior Member
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Yep, same kind of slurry, same clay smell.
Wanna know what it cost me?
NOTHING, NADA, ZIP, ZILCH!!!!!! This stone was as free as the air we breathe!
it came as a "freebie" with a barber hone that I bought for $10. So even if it's not an escher, it polishes really well and I'm not out any unnecessary expense.Last edited by Russel Baldridge; 05-14-2008 at 01:43 AM.
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05-14-2008, 01:53 AM #4Hones & Honing
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AARRGGGHHHH! The best I have done is $2!
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05-14-2008, 02:43 AM #5Senior Member
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($2 is still an amazingly good deal! Kudos!!)
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05-14-2008, 06:16 AM #6
Double your money? I give you 4
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AARRGGGHHHH! The best I have done is $2!
Til shade is gone, til water is gone, Into the shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath.
To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day
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05-14-2008, 06:18 AM #7Usagi Yojimbo
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Don't listen to him Randy, he tried that nonsense with me also! Originally Posted by Bruno
Double your money? I give you 4
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05-14-2008, 06:27 AM #8Senior Member
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Looks like this might be a second, corners are of a different material. Take some slurry and check with a mike if it has garnets in it. I have got other hones, definitely not Thuringer or coticule that give off a clay like smell as well when wet.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr.
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05-14-2008, 05:49 PM #9Senior Member
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The two corners are not a different material, they are chipped and worn down from the top surface of the stone and did not get lapped. So that is what the entire stone looked like before I lapped the top. The back still looks that way, with a few light spots where I started lapping it but stopped because the other side was flatter.
Are there other possibilities for what it could be?
Since it does cut the steel and is very fine?Last edited by Russel Baldridge; 05-14-2008 at 05:52 PM.
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05-14-2008, 09:01 PM #10Senior Member
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New photos, lapped a little further, and with other thuringers to compare.
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