Comment on Friday SOTD Thread, November 14th, 2025 (#885)

• DaveWave94@wetshav.ing ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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!

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  • gcgallant@wetshav.ing ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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