Yeah, get ready to spend a stupid amount of money friend. Unless you get a flea market or estate sale score.
How to acquire a nice Escher/Thuri?
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I'd like a yellow green one of those barbers gems.
Yeah you aren't getting any deal on a yellow green in that size.. You can name your price for those on the bay as rabbis just throw the money at you for the yellow greens and don't even haggle most of the time.
Rabbis?
Assuming that isn't an auto correct typo, are they considered a kosher stone? Like the kosher coticules?
They use them in the slaughterhouses... They pretty much only want yellow green, will do light green in a pinch and shun the blues or blue greens
Right, same as the cotis. Interesting. Learn something new every day.
I can't remember the last time I sold a yg escher and it was not to a rabbi... 2017ish if I had to guess
It's like Russians were with washitas until the unpleasantness started
Was that for religious reasons? I thought that was just a youtube fad that made them popular over there.
Actually, now that I think about it, given how big Russia is, one thing you don't really hear about is Russian sharpening stones. I can't think of any, anyway.
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Russians? I think they just use them for knives and no reason.
Now that they have been knocked out of the box, the deals for charnleys and washitas have just been great... It's just a shame it took people getting shelled and more to bring the prices back to earth
The boxed 5x1 still sell for reasonable prices (<100, sometimes<50).
Dark blue 7x1.5 without labels or with tiny label scraps aren't bad. (<150)
Sometimes greens slip by <200. (Just got sniped on a labeled one @ 160, regret not going to 200... but such is life)
But this is all ebay. Tim buys all the ones in the wild, so dont even try.
The rabbi thing is news to me, but I haven't sold a yg in ages... cotis made sense because they are nonporous and that was the assumed reason (know the stone is clean) they were desired for butchering... there's not many stones out there that absorb faster than a soft yg.
For a good bit there you could score 6x2s for $100 or so (ambicuts with thuri backs), but it must be almost 5 yrs since I saw one of those listed.
Dark blue 7x1.5 without labels or with tiny label scraps aren't bad. (<150)
Sometimes greens slip by <200. (Just got sniped on a labeled one @ 160, regret not going to 200... but such is life)
But this is all ebay. Tim buys all the ones in the wild, so dont even try.
The rabbi thing is news to me, but I haven't sold a yg in ages... cotis made sense because they are nonporous and that was the assumed reason (know the stone is clean) they were desired for butchering... there's not many stones out there that absorb faster than a soft yg.
For a good bit there you could score 6x2s for $100 or so (ambicuts with thuri backs), but it must be almost 5 yrs since I saw one of those listed.
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A lot of the ones I have moved in recent times have gone to spring valley/Monsey ny. We used to have a few rabbis on here actually but I haven't seen them in ages.
I’m guessing that the affinity to Eschers comes from that being the best stone in the part of the world that historically had the largest Jewish population (outside the US). If there had been large Jewish communities in Japan or Arkansas it might be a different situation.
Not an expert on getting stones internationally, but I have noticed some decent prices coming out of Ukraine the past few months. General European-area stones (I picked up a dual Scotch hone myself). Given how large Russia is, I would expect that there must be a few interesting honing stones somewhere in that part of the world.
Not an expert on getting stones internationally, but I have noticed some decent prices coming out of Ukraine the past few months. General European-area stones (I picked up a dual Scotch hone myself). Given how large Russia is, I would expect that there must be a few interesting honing stones somewhere in that part of the world.
I’d be worried about how the postal system out of the Ukraine is working these days. When I’ve bought things from there in the past, international mail was routed through Moscow.
When I bought it the predicted delivery time was 6 weeks. It actually arrived in under 4 weeks. So it is unpredictable, but at least I am 1 for 1. With the electricity outages, not sure if the situation is the same today as it was 2 months ago.
Yeah the razor I got from Ukraine went from Kiev to NY directly. Took 45 days.
Kravchenko?
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