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David

David

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I feel like this needs to be said.

There’s some jacked up stones on an auction site now listed as thuris that look like cut down floor tiles. I won’t link them, but just wanted to say be careful to any new guys looking to buy thuris. Do your homework. If someone has 11 negative feedbacks in the past 12 months you might want to pass that one over. :thumbup1:
 
eKretz

eKretz

Lord Fatboy said:
:D There's always the fumes too...bonus dude (-_^).
It works well for the "celebrated" and "genuine" labels + the stones themselves (I find it smoother than whatever Peter uses on the sides of the newer Thuris - probably I have more time to add coats than he does).
While I get the whole "cashew lacquer for J-nats" thing, there isn't any cultural or historic connection between European stones and certain lacquers (that I know of).

Maybe there is a purpose built label preserving lacquer for restorers of old beer & wine bottles or 78 record labels... but I can just imagine the nightmare of getting something like that in the UK .
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I am in the camp of protecting the labels. A wine bottle or similar doesn't have to worry about repeated soaking and drying with water and likely slurry. A water stone does. The paper in these labels is getting VERY old now, and it doesn't take much to deteriorate it further. I understand and agree with leaving the label as-is if the stone won't be used much if at all, but if the stone will be used somewhat frequently I'd advise either trying to remove the label or protecting it with waterproof lacquer or varnish.
 
Andy77

Andy77

Dcaddo said:
I feel like this needs to be said.

There’s some jacked up stones on an auction site now listed as thuris that look like cut down floor tiles. I won’t link them, but just wanted to say be careful to any new guys looking to buy thuris. Do your homework. If someone has 11 negative feedbacks in the past 12 months you might want to pass that one over. :thumbup1:
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The negative feedback for the seller in question isn’t for hones, but those stones look like they belong in my garden. They look like they’re in the business of reselling items using whatever key words work, and then refunding whenever there’s a problem.
 
Lord Fatboy

Lord Fatboy

eKretz said:
I am in the camp of protecting the labels. A wine bottle or similar doesn't have to worry about repeated soaking and drying with water and likely slurry. A water stone does. The paper in these labels is getting VERY old now, and it doesn't take much to deteriorate it further. I understand and agree with leaving the label as-is if the stone won't be used much if at all, but if the stone will be used somewhat frequently I'd advise either trying to remove the label or protecting it with waterproof lacquer or varnish.
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Me too. I'm for protecting the labels, as I've said elsewhere in the thread.
This was (sortof) a reply to someone who perhaps wondered if there was some specialised product for lacquering old paper or labels, beyond the usual nail polish or bike paint lacquer or etc.
 
Lord Fatboy

Lord Fatboy

Andy77 said:
The negative feedback for the seller in question isn’t for hones, but those stones look like they belong in my garden. They look like they’re in the business of reselling items using whatever key words work, and then refunding whenever there’s a problem.
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Dcaddo said:
I feel like this needs to be said.

There’s some jacked up stones on an auction site now listed as thuris that look like cut down floor tiles. I won’t link them, but just wanted to say be careful to any new guys looking to buy thuris. Do your homework. If someone has 11 negative feedbacks in the past 12 months you might want to pass that one over. :thumbup1:
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Ah yes, I see them now on the UK version of that same site: "was bought by a collector years ago for 500 dollars". P'fft. They look like roughed up Chinese hones. It's a business model others on the bay seem to like. Shame.
 
Freehand

Freehand

I haven’t looked at my hones for a couple of years and kinda forget what I have. I prefer Labled Eschers and Thurigans, but there are a few others mixed in. I can only imagine how my children will get rid of these after I’m gone. Oh well, it won’t be my problem then! LoL
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eKretz

eKretz

Right? Just pencil my phone number on a scrap of paper and leave it in a few of the hone boxes so your kids will find it, lol.
 
Lord Fatboy

Lord Fatboy

Sold as "Huge Antique 16" Thuringian Yellow Gray Sharpening Stone Razor Hone" for just over 200 bucks / surely they are having a laugh..?
 
MZ_Shaves

MZ_Shaves

BWR said:
Escher Barbers Delight & unlabeled cloudy thuringian. The yellow green Escher Barbers Delight and the dual color light green Eschers Barbers Delight are very fast and wonderful hones, a real pleasure to use no doubt, but the cloudy unlabeled thuri is not second to either. It's a very nice stone and just as good. They are are thuringian hones the labels just cost more [emoji23].
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I have both of those type of labeled Eschers. They’re my favorite. Glad to find another with that unusual label (light green stone). I hadn’t seen one with that type of label before I bought mine.

Beautiful stones!
 
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