Thread: Welsh Slate

Originally Posted by hipsley

My best 3 are extremely vintage ( my grandpa's) ha ha and are really good as far as finishing goes.

Tryed, tested and true i have a stone from one of my grandads too, i have nooooo idea what it is and i havent even seen it since i was in my teens (around 20 years ago) i just know now from memory that it was very well heavily used for tool sharpening, it was almost grining, and recalling the texture and apperance, it was some sort of hard, extremely dark yellow natural stone, almost like a nicotene yellow, im gonna have to locate that.

Have all three from AJ, they are fun stones capable of producing a finished edge post 8K and a great stone to learn to work with slurry, because the slurry so easily. My experience is less slurry is more, try to finish on water flushing the stone frequently for best results.

You can get a nice edge, but more in the 8-10 K range.

Works well with Smith Honing Solution and water.