Comment on Friday SOTD Thread, November 14th, 2025 (#885)
DaveWave94@wetshav.ing 10 months agoThuringian edge
Feels kinda surreal that my small little german state has a sharpening stone/edge named after it. Really cool though!
Comment on Friday SOTD Thread, November 14th, 2025 (#885)
DaveWave94@wetshav.ing 10 months agoThuringian edge
Feels kinda surreal that my small little german state has a sharpening stone/edge named after it. Really cool though!
gcgallant@wetshav.ing 10 months ago
Not only that, these are famous stones for having exceptional quality!
DaveWave94@wetshav.ing 10 months ago
I read an interesting blog post after a short research: the Escher stones originally came from the area near Sonneberg, a southern thuringian city famous for developing and manufacturing all kinds of children’s toys. The sharpening stones themselves are rather rare and therefore expensive. Something new to me, but nevertheless quite interesting!
gcgallant@wetshav.ing 10 months ago
The Escher company went out of business. To my knowledge, the Thuringian mountain ranges are not mined for stones any more, but material from those mountains is used to make some synthetic whetstones. (I’ve never seen these). The original stones are very desirable.