Thread: my Thuringian Quest...

Originally Posted by Utopian

Well of course! I mean, after you get one Nakayama, you have to ask yourself, maybe some other Nakayama might be better. Then of course if you get another and find that it is better, then you have to wonder if there might be one that is even more better. On the other hand, if you get another and find that it is not better, then that means that your first one was better, which still means that some are better than others and maybe the NEXT one you buy might be even more better!

In addition, though I have several Eschers, I don't have a brown Escher like you have so obviously I need to keep an eye out for one of those because they might be better than my Nakayama, or at least better than one of my Nakayamas, or if not, maybe some other brown Escher might be better than any of my Nakayamas and I still haven't tried Shaptons and who knows what some nutjob on this board is going to announce as the next best hone and can I really keep hiding rocks from my wife or tell her the truth about how much I paid for a ROCK but then again there may still be another Nakayame that is even better but then again Glen pointed out that maybe the key is the lower grit hones for bevel setting and maybe I need more hones in the 1K range and Jimmy was only missing 4 of the hones on Glen's list and I don't have any tattoes at all and it might be that if aliens came with better rocks from their planet that they might only give them to honemeisters with tattoes but they might not work as well as Bart's coticule for bevel setting but for a final polish I hear that DMT is going to come out with a 31K diamond plate right after they finish the 4k plate to fill in that gap and then it's likely that I'll have all the hones I need until Lynn comes out with another DVD.

MMM phun you are

BTW. I have just bought yet another of the celebrated horn's, I have to loose some of coz peps around me are starting to act strange when I start talking about yet another hone.....

Originally Posted by Utopian

I've got those exact same two hones! My Muller looks nothing like yours though. Yours appears to have a non-homogenous texture to it. My Muller doesn't feel like some of my finer Eschers when honing but its pretty close. I guess that's the luck of the draw when you are buying rocks.

Is your little one glued into the box? Mine was but it isn't any more. I prefer to use it in my palm without the box in the way. I really like the little guy.

Mueller Thuringians all have some pyrite inclusions and a slighty non-homogenous texture if looked at closely. The slurry however of a vintage and a Mueller Thuringian are identical when studied under the electron microscope.

I have a little Celebrated Water Razor Hone like that one. It's a fabulous little hone! Although getting it out of the glued box proved to be a bit of a stuggle at first....It take a little while to get used to, seeing it's only about 5"x1", but I love it.

After reading a few posts about using dish soap in your honing water, I tried that with the little thuringian. It works VERY well. Being such a small and narrow hone, I find it hard to keep the water on top, also since it's very non-porous. But with the little bit of dish soap added the water stays on top very uniformly without forming little bubbles like water on a duck's back.

Originally Posted by Kees

Mueller Thuringians all have some pyrite inclusions and a slighty non-homogenous texture if looked at closely. The slurry however of a vintage and a Mueller Thuringian are identical when studied under the electron microscope.

I. WANT. PICTURES.

If you have access to an electron microscope, can I come stay at your place and analyze my hones and razors? It won't take long, I promise.

Why not we all make visit for a couple days KEES lab.That will be great fun no sleeping just testing hones.

Those are some nice hones you have there. I have one of the Mullers. I haven't noticed any inclusions but I haven't looked at it under a microscope. Nice stone though that didn't cost an arm and a leg.