Thread: Historic Grinding Technologies

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Thanks
Peter

Done deal!
You are a pleasure to work with.
I will post pics after I receive the straight razor.

Just added a small Henckels Friodur and some thuringian stones to the shop. There will be more coming up the next weeks.

Important notice:
For all US and non-europe clients, I just want to make sure, that you don't have to pay VAT! German law is a bit complicated, I always have to point out the maximum end price of products. And since it is not clear where a buyer is located until he puts the item into his shopping basket and leave his adress, prices show up VAT included.

If there is any problem with that during automatic checkout from the webside, please let me know by email. We will than finalize the purchase on a direct basis.

Best regards and stay sharp!
Peter

On your website it says Price excl VAT: confusing.
Very nice Breidenbach. I have to keep telling myself: "You have more than enough razors and hones"!

Hi Kees, thanks for the tip.
The remark is indeed wrong. The wording is from the early days when I opened the store a few years ago. At that time, this was - as we say in Germany, a so-called small business unit. Here you are not liable to pay VAT to the authorities as long as the turnover does not exceed a certain volume. So all prices are excl. VAT, also in Germany and Europe. I changed the tax mode about a year ago. The website changed the calculation mode automatically, but not the wording in foreign languages. I have now modified this.

Best regards Peter

I saw you have yellow/green/blue combination Thuringhian bouts.

Is that Yellow, Green, Blue all on one side or is it yellow, green one side and blue the other?

Can both sides be lapped for use?

Just so I understand completely, how do they compare to the blue/green that I am told is a beautiful finisher?

Thanks for clarifying this for me.

Hi Steve,

thuringian hones are generally devided into 4 colors or qualities: (dark) blue (b) - blue-green (bg) - light green (lg) - yellow green (yg). The single colors do have some differences especially in the upper size of quartz particles, but all in all the differences are small. Which layer is best is a question that can only be decided individually by preference of the honer. Also stones of the same layer could be slightly different. Most people found the yellow-green hones to be the best, others the blue-green and so on. Most of the time the yg hones are a bit softer than the other ones and give a more smooth feeling while honing.

A special sort of stones are the combination hones where the yellow-green layer touches a blue layer and was mined in a way, that both layers do occur in a hone. This blue layer from the combination hones is not comparable to the sole dark-blue layers, it has more in common and is nearly as fine as the touching yg layer. So generally both sides of the combination could be used, if lapped and free of cracks and faults.

The combination stones yellow-green to blue are not comparable to the blue-green color.

Hope this helps and is not too confusing.

Regards Peter

Happy Easter sale in my webshop!!!

All products reduced with a discount of 15%

Stay sharp!
Peter

Since we have a national holiday also on Monday here in Germany, the Easter sale will also be continuing tomorrow and is ending Monday night.

Regards Peter

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I am so tempted to purchase that yellow/green/blue stone!