Thread: Dragons Tongue Hone anyone?

What myth?

I don't mean myth, rather I am interested to see whether the stone I get is on the higher or lower end of the spectrum. From the posts in this thread I can't tell for sure until I try it myself.

I for one will be interested in reading about your experiences. That is a very attractive price for a stone, especially shipped from Wales. I'm tempted myself, and I'm not even at the point of learning to hone yet.

~Rich

My DT had a similar scratch pattern to a Thuringian (dark blue) hone that I got from Toolshop.de . It is a coarser pattern (and less polished) in appearance than from a Norton 8K.

The DT came and I lapped it. Pretty easy compared to a chinese 12k. I would place it less than 10-8k probably around 6ish like holli said. It is a slow cutter, slurry does speed it up but not to the pace of a BBW with slurry. It feels kinda smooth more velvety than anything. It also has tiny little hard inclusions that I don't think affect anything.

Just brought three 10x3 of them and I will see if there is any difference between them and my old one.

Wow great find / thread. I didn't think I'd find decent hones being 'hewn' 50 miles from my hometown. Ordered!

Could I go from 10 micron sandpaper on glass to DT with slurry, than with water, and then to the chinese stone for polishing?

I want to buy a coti later, but thats out of the price range at the time I already have a chinese, and a roughly 1k stone for bevel setting, so I have to get 1 or 2 between steps before going to the CH12k.

I have gone from a King 1k to the DT with slurry, that jump was do-able. From the DT to the C12k should be doable too, IMO.

Sorry to necropost here, but though it worth adding my findings to the thread.

I'd been struggling to find a use for my DT hone until I tried it with oil. So far I've only tried 2 razors but both had been honed using the dilucot method on my coticule and were shaving but not quite as well as I expect. Both have taken a significantly sharper edge after 40-60 laps on oil where as previously on water the effect of use after my coticule dulled the blade a little.