Thread: Has Anyone Ever Honed With a Lydian Stone?

Not sure yet bet it might be harder

Originally Posted by eKretz

Right, what I meant was at that price maybe it's not an actual Lydite stone, but instead a shale stone.

If it is a very hard stone it won't be shale

Its not shale then. I gave up trying to get it perfectly flat. Ugh! S.O.B is hard

So I am curious, how do we know if its this lydite or lydian versus something else. I mean nowhere on the amazon link, that I see, does it say lydite or lydian or anything of what it is made of.

Black titanium hard as a hell. Lol when I was searching under Lydian another name came up as being used as well.

Ok so I took a great shaver. My Iberia. I did about 50 laps on the side I lapped. I did not strop. I want to feel how the edge is off the stone. I did not have much growth since I reciently shaved. This adds to the challenge of the test. I was impressed. I received a very smooth shave. No irritation. I'm sure it will improve even more after stropping. So I guess I will be testing this hone more.

Interesting. Thanks for the report. I may try one of those. Here's a new natural I'm trying out:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...-there-52.html

Wow that is a huge rock. Havve you tried it out yet

Only on a test piece, not on a razor yet. I started with it on a test piece that was finished with my 400 Atoma but couldn't hardly get anywhere with it - too fine. So I went to a 2,000 Shapton Pro and got the piece uniformly finished with that, then went to the new stone. Very slow cutting again, so I switched from plain water on the new stone to a 400 Atoma slurry. Then it cut pretty quick and smoothed out as the slurry broke down. Switched back to plain water and got a decent mirror finish. Looks like it may be either a high-midlevel refiner or a finisher.

Great.do you knw know what kind of stone it is.