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I just got a pristine mint Escher yellow/green and it is the first time I have seen the labels intact enough to read the text. For anyone who may be interested here it is.
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When I think creating a slurry that is akin to "lather", I think really thick slurry. Really thick. I've only tried really thick slurry on my Belgian Blue with blue slurry stone. It sure cuts fast that way. The idea of a really thick slurry on a finishing stone seems counter intuitive to me.
Have you tried thick slurry on your finishing stones, Jimmy?
Chris L
As a newb to such hones I have no idea what a rubber is.
Yeah, I guess add another useful definition to that word. I'd never thought a rubbing stone/slurry stone would have been called a rubber. Why not?Quote:
Originally Posted by kevint
Chris L
I guess that depends on what your defintion of thick slurry is Chris . :) I use a milky slurry but I wouldn't call it thick. Taking direction from Bart's posts I thin it adding water as I go. I always go to water only to finish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris L
Like Chris said a rubber is a rubbing or slurry stone. That is the small stone that you see accompanying a stone and when rubbed on the surface with water it releases the garnets or whatever abrasive is in the stone. The water carries the particles and aids in cutting the metal. Some call it a nagura stone.Quote:
Originally Posted by kevint
I think it's interesting that at the point in time when razor hones were in widespread use Escher & Co felt it necessary to remind buyers that it was worth a "cent or two more" to buy a genuine Escher hone.:roflmao
I think even then the cent or two comment was facetious.
Of course it was. Still, I find the concept of selling "value" when dealing with an Escher ironic given today's pricing. So. my :roflmaostands :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Utopian
How about where they say to lay the razor "pretty flat" on the hone. :thinking: That bit of instruction won't make it as a sticky. :D
I'm still stuck like this: :thinking: on making slurry like "lather".
Chris L
I think it is interesting. Apparently there was no use of the term: slurry
It's not a slurry stone, but a rubber; which does not produce slurry, but lather.
So in other contemporary sources that refer to using a stone with lather- what did they really mean?
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Originally Posted by kevint
Exactly my thought ?????
I have heard tell of barbers using shaving lather on barber hones. Never heard of it done on an Escher, but certainly possible. Typically I just use water these days and the razors will produce a fine slurry. I have found that for a final polish, this works better than generating a thicker slurry with a nagura type stone.
Lynn