It doesn't look like one. Can someone help please? What is it? I have not seen a hone that looks like this with a Droescher label before. Thanks
It says Droescher but...
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Why are the pictures distorted? It looks like the lighting in the photograph is artificial causing the stone to look off? What does the front of the stone look like?
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I don't have it yet. I saw it for sale on a tool website a couple weeks ago and forgot about it. The guy just sent me an invoice this morning.It's about $70 with shipping from the other side of the world
If it's legit then you got an awesome stone for a very good deal. Hopefully it comes to you soon so you can test it. I use heavy slurry on my Dark Blue escher (Darker the escher the finer and slow it is) and I love the results. Just make sure the razor is all the way maxed out first.
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It took him 2 weeks to weeks to invoice it. I don't expect to see it any time soon.
Well, we will keep our fingers crossed for you! 
No one said why it took them so long just for an invoice? Which tools site is this?
No one said why it took them so long just for an invoice? Which tools site is this?
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No just an invoice from paypal. thetoolexchange.com.au I believe
If it's legit then you got an awesome stone for a very good deal. Hopefully it comes to you soon so you can test it. I use heavy slurry on my Dark Blue escher (Darker the escher the finer and slow it is) and I love the results. Just make sure the razor is all the way maxed out first.
Dark blues are quite consistent and finer than average in my experience, but "The Darker the finer" doesn't agree with my experience. I've had some light greens (1, arguably 2 (the second was borderline yellowgreen)), greys (2), dark greys (1), and yellow greens (1) finer than any dark blue (and I've owned about 2 dozen dark blues) I've used. Light greens are a bit more common than dark blues, and seem to average a bit coarser. Using colors as a very basic guide to fineness will work out about 60-70% of the time I'd say. But there are definitely variables involved in thuri grits that don't affect the color, so it's not a definite scale. For instance I just sold a light green that was finer than all but one of the ~seven Blues I own at the moment, and that finer blue was a very light blue/grey.
That said, I haven't found a Thuri that leaves anything less than an excellent shaving edge, so unless you particularly WANT a slower stone... getting concerned over how fine your escher is relative to another is a waste of time.
Oh and I've seen that boxed SRDroescher a number of times. Unless he took great pains to forge it, it's a legit Droescher.
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I don't think he would have sold it for $40 aus.plus shipping if he went through the trouble of forging it considering the price people are willing to pay all day long. Thank you for your assurance that it should be authentic. $70 is a lot of money to me.
Congrats, properly listed, that stone would fetch $250-350 on eBay, you got a steal.
Very interesting, thanks for the response. I always went by the lighter the color the faster route as others were trying to figure out the color labels. All in all, in the end, I guess it really doesn't matter much because you're using an Escher!
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I just checked the status and my new hone shipped out in Mondays mail from Australia. We'll see what it actually looks like soon I hope.
Looks like a great buy. Let us know when it comes in.
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I sure will. I am curious to see what I end up having.
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Just goes to show how deceiving lighting can be. It came today! 
Just goes to show how deceiving lighting can be. It came today!
I was following the thread- glad it came in and looks so nice. It should be a fine stone- enjoy!
what a score!
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Thank you! I haven't used it yet because I acquired several stones recently but it feels nicer than another Thuringian I have. Hopefully something will come in the mail today so I can try her out. I really want a nice western style Japanese Razor so I may not have it long.
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Only go to the escher when the razor is done, use slurry, it will serve you well. I have a dark blue at home and although its slower than the lighter eschers is very fine.
