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Escher Water Hone — Natural Thuringian Honing Stone

Meet the new, yet very old honing stone, cut out of the one and only finest green to grey-blue colored Thuringian raw material.

This quarry was hidden away in Communist Germany for decades and only recently yielded an original block of stone, which is being cut into the only sizes that its veins allow it to be cut into, thus producing a limited quantity of high quality Original Escher stone.

Its extraordinary fineness and hardness is not met by any other natural stone — 10,000 to 12,000 grit.

straightedge razorKnown by straightedge razor shavers as the ultimate razor honing stone. Used as the final hone after shaping and sharpening with man-made or natural abrasives that produce a wire-edge, or burr in the fashion of a saw-toothed like serrated line.

Escher stone is pure powder-like quartz, embedded in chalk, which gives it its slurry activity. You can either rub a small sister stone over the surface to quickly raise an active quantity of dust, then add water and you have a slurry, which some users prefer; or use without a slurry, just wetting the surface of the stone, and you will get an even more incredible fineness of edge with just a few strokes.

The Escher is NOT recommended as a final hone if you have used the natural Belgian garnet stone in advance. We are often asked about this combination use and can, at best, offer the advice that Belgian hones produce an edge without burrs, therefore that edge is already drawn to a more ideal finish, not gaining any advantage using the Escher.

Our Escher-Thuringian water hone is completely free of pyrites, which could otherwise hamper the honing effect.

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Limited quantities available of this recently rediscovered fine honing stone.

Size Price USD Buy now

110 x 25 x 15 mm
approx. 4.3 x 1.0 x 1/2 in.

$ 39.00
125 x 25 x 15 mm
approx. 5 x 1 x 1/2 in.
$ 41.00
190 x 30 x 6 mm
approx. 7.5 x 1.2 x 1/4 in.
$49.00

125 x 63 x 20 mm
approx. 5 x 2.5 x 3/4 in.
supplied WITH slurry stone

$130.00

Note: the first three stones are not delivered with a slurry stone.  

   

 

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