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I had one 'barber's delight' that was a yellow/green in mint condition and sold it to a member in the UK. Kept the y/g I hone with which isn't as cosmetically as nice, no box or matching slurry stone...

Howard from The Perfect Edge is a geologist and another forum member Alex ( A_S) ought to be if he ain't. For that kind of info they might be able to shed some light if you shoot one or both a PM....

Hi Robert. Eschers are not composed of garnets. Coticules are. The abrasive in Eschers are quartz in a chalk binder. Hence the soft quality of the stone and why it is so good for razors. Not too soft...

Well I'm with you on being uncomfortable with mixing the slurry color to color but I don't think it would hurt anything. When you come right down to it the abrasive is still quartz. Even with...

I've got examples of dark blue, blue/green, yellow/green and light green. IME they go from fast to slow in reverse the order I've listed them in. The smoothness is so close in all of mine that I...

I would venture to say that neither one of those are dark blue. The dark blues I have seen are very dark. I have seen dark blues in that color box before. I've never seen an Escher with two end...

Hard to tell without seeing them in person but the small one looks like a yellow/green to me and the larger a blue/green. Those are a pair of beauties and great hones. Don't let anyone talk you out...

Here is a Y/G that is NOS in the box. Never used or lapped. Below that a dark blue, blue green, yellow green and light green. All stones are end labeled with the color designation by Escher.

This is one I got off of the bay some time ago. It is the seller's photo. The stone lapped to the same color as an Escher blue/green but is almost black when wet. Fine cutting finisher as most of...

Not saying your wrong Sam. There is a guy in North Florida that collects Eschers. For awhile he was buying all of the big ones that came up on ebay. He told me that the brown Escher is the best of...

Sam, I know that you have found the brown to be the best. I know of another Escher collector (not on the forum) who thinks the same thing. I have yet to get my hands on one. I don't know if Escher...

Many thanks for this Tim. You may recall my sending an email back in mid October to you asking your assessment of the differences in the honing qualities based on color ? Rich Dominguez told me that...