Thread: natural duel stone a llyn melynllyn and dragons tongue

Just ordered the 3 hone set that was '50%' wider. Can't wait... Even if it fails, from what you guys said they seem to be awesome stones, it's not that bad of a loss for $114 (shipping included)

Hello , dear community . I have also bought all the three stones and have been experimenting with them (thank all of you for your advices ) . I am not using any eschers and Turys at the moment because the new welsh slates give an exellent result .I have never reached such results . I lupped one side of the stone 2500 paper , and the other side 380 paper , as the seller advised . May be because of the shortage of experience i can't see the difference betwen the work of the stones . I wonder which level of the lupping of the stone makes work easier ? May be somebody can make a conclusion so that not to come back to this question .Thanks

My purple one and the dark green one (not the dragons tongue) are fairly similar with the dark green one getting a slightly better edge with plain water. The are a very fun set to play with and try different honing experiments with. I'm very glad I bought mine!

Oh hai! I stumbled upon this thread when looking for info on these hones, which I have found to be quite amazing...

I found them on eBay when I was looking for a decent priced finishing stone, and messaged the seller asking if they would sell just the 6"x2" highest ~15k grit stone with slurry stone for $30 shipped, roughly one third of the buy-it-now price for all three ($85 shipped). He agreed. Took about a week for my stone to arrive, and I love it! Worked up a milky slurry and did 25 laps on four razors, two of which I was honing for a friend. I shaved off of one of mine this morning and it was the best shave I have had thus far (been shaving since February this year)! I am extremely pleased with this stone, and glad I chose it over the more expensive Naniwa 12k. I had to look at a cheaper option due to my budget at the moment, and this fit the bill... no pun intended. Seriously though, I love it. Huge shoutout to AJ for helping me out! I highly recommend everyone try these stones if you haven't already.

Cheers,
Chris

Aj is a great guy. Im glad you like them.

That's it. I'm going to have to order stones from AJ. I had messaged him a while back about the dual stones and also to see if he could do other sizes and he was all "absolutely no problem, just let me know the size and I can quote them for you".

I would really like to add a good finisher, and I'd also like to see how a natural stone performs.

I should not have read this thread. You all are bad!!! (kidding)

A lot of good info and tests.

But it make me buy the two set. Now i must pay attention in the mailbox everyday, SWMBO can't see that!!!