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It's lacquered. The buyer lacquered it before noticing the cracks. Moisture can make it under the crack from the top, though, but the stone itself is still pretty static right now (i.e., nothing is...

I was thinking of putting it in something quartersawn (which would make it stable), like maybe cocobolo, and leaving enough of a cutout in the middle of the back so that you could still read the...

Well, it's not that kind of crack. It's a crack that runs from the top of the stone likely to the side if it makes it all the way there. If you've ever chipped slate or shale rocks, you know what I...

So, the escher that I had sold boomeranged. The person who bought it correctly noted there was some light cracking along the sides of the stone, which presents (obvious) risks to a future user in...

No objection from me, but if the stones turn out to be interesting to everyone, they'll definitely be easier to find in a new title.

Today's the big day, we'll find out of my old escher was "good" or "too soft".

I think in the end, you guys will be able to say "we know it was the arrow and not the indian", or maybe "the indian...

Razors have taken the same twisting and turning as tools have. Ebay has pretty much totaled the ability of a lot of antique dealers to buy tools at swap meets and then clean them up a little bit and...

That looks like a nice stone. I think it might be a bit finer than the one I got, but the density of mine is pretty high (2.85 specific gravity), so I may need to just work it a while and see what it...

The black trans wouldn't happen to be one of the black trans stones from natural whestone would it? As someone with a super sensitive face, I've been impressed with just how much improvement an ark...

Well, I sold it. Here on the classifieds, it went up and then it sold and got reclassified off the member classifieds quickly. Knee jerk, maybe. I told my wife I would never buy an escher because she...

The stones, at least the japanese barber hone that I mention, are about the last step I can go before I get any weepers. As in I can sever hair with them with or against the grain, but no weepers, at...

They'll need to start with selling their used car instead of trading it in the next time! I figure that over the last 6 years, between woodworking and shaving, I've been through at least $5,000,...

Well, any of us who refuse to go on to powders or sprays after the stones are essentially doing that. Just picking a level where we'll stop, or where we're satisfied, and ignoring the logical...

Well, now that the escher is settled in, I can get a pretty good shaving edge. But I have two japanese stones that are finer, one if left alone (i.e, never scuffed on a surface) will brighten the...

Well, it did stop slurrying after a couple of razors. It only releases a tiny bit of abrasive that you can only just see in the water. It was probably releasing a lot of slurry as the tooth from...

Exactly right, once you find what you like, you can quit reading as it'll just lead you in directions that don't have a lot of chance of upsetting the incumbent.

I just was so thrown by how many...

If I'd have taken the spyderco out of the box, I would've thought that it was the devil. It had mill marks on it and I lapped it dry for a very long time before I got them out. Then it was super...

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I got a heavily used big 9x2 y/g escher (escher as in with label, not a green unmarked thuri) yesterday. I paid half a mint for it (it's half used up, seems fair. Some...