Thread: First experiences with the "Dragon" Slate hone

Hello all I have added a Dragon slate hone from inigo jones to my rather minimal collection. Before I was relying on the use of differing pressures and a synthetic nagura off a king 1k to get as sharp and edge as possible followed by stropping with Starkie blue with many many laps to get reasonably polished edge to shave off.
Its my first natural, I read all about it on here and was surprised how quickly it smoothed the bevel from 1k by using slurry and a bit of pressure. I finished on water, could not quite get a shaving edge off it, but only needed a few laps on the loaded paddle
I Lapped the stone on 180gt wet n dry and a lapping plate and it seemed smooth enough to me. Do you think it would be worthwhile to Lap the other side as high as I can go to get a bit more finish out of it?
I'm planning on adding a 4k King stone and a chinese 12K to my bargain sequence. But if the Slate is equilivent to maybe 6K on slurry 8K on water? I would hope to learn the skills to finish off the slate. Any thoughts?
Also has anyone done any close up shots of the edge from the slate. To me it looked very smooth through a good x10 loupe and yet it must be quite quick when used with slurry to get from 1K?
Thanks Will