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.
Known
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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