Thread: Welsh Thuringian

i have a few of ajs stones and the welsh Lyn Melynllyn is a wonderfull finisher easyly compairable to my thurigan if you havent tryed one do so, you wont be sorry

I'm actually more interested in the dark Welsh slate's performance. I've had a purple Welsh stone for a while now, and the edges I'm getting from it as a finisher don't equate to what I get from either of my Thuringer hones. Comparable? Everything is comparable - but does it compare favorably? So far the best I've gotten off the purple stone is an edge that's noticeably less smooth and keen than what I had with honing the same blade on the Thuris (one is a labled Escher of a greenish variety - the other is a softer and lighter green Thuri). My results might be the result of the fact that I haven't meessed with the purple stone enough to nail it or it could be that it's just not that fine a stone. Jury is still out on that one.
The dark Welsh slate intrigues me, but not enough to plunk down some coin on one yet. If the hype on the purple stone revolves around an assumed and entirely theoretical 12k edge, and the darker stone is supposed to be 15k.... then I'm not seeing enough of a significant difference there to warrant buying one. Mind you - I don't make a practice of assigning grit numbers to jusge natural stones so I'm just referring to what AJ and others have written.
Basically - its my feeling that a difference of 3k isn't all that much of a big whoot.
Now - if someone with a few other hones that they know well, can do a comarison against the Welsh stones, and they think there's a big ginormious difference between the purple stone and the dark one, then that's another thing entirely.

Originally Posted by Gamma

I'm actually more interested in the dark Welsh slate's performance. I've had a purple Welsh stone for a while now, and the edges I'm getting from it as a finisher don't equate to what I get from either of my Thuringer hones. Comparable? Everything is comparable - but does it compare favorably? So far the best I've gotten off the purple stone is an edge that's noticeably less smooth and keen than what I had with honing the same blade on the Thuris (one is a labled Escher of a greenish variety - the other is a softer and lighter green Thuri). My results might be the result of the fact that I haven't meessed with the purple stone enough to nail it or it could be that it's just not that fine a stone. Jury is still out on that one.
The dark Welsh slate intrigues me, but not enough to plunk down some coin on one yet. If the hype on the purple stone revolves around an assumed and entirely theoretical 12k edge, and the darker stone is supposed to be 15k.... then I'm not seeing enough of a significant difference there to warrant buying one. Mind you - I don't make a practice of assigning grit numbers to jusge natural stones so I'm just referring to what AJ and others have written.
Basically - its my feeling that a difference of 3k isn't all that much of a big whoot.
Now - if someone with a few other hones that they know well, can do a comarison against the Welsh stones, and they think there's a big ginormious difference between the purple stone and the dark one, then that's another thing entirely.

I think its been written a few times that the difference between the Lynn and the darker stone is minimal, on the other hand i do use a Lynn Mellynlyn and honing on that hone with oil instead of water makes quite a difference. If you have two thuringian hones
why get another thats similar??? Recently i got a Yellow lake in the 9 to 10 k range and found its quite a difference going from that to a finisher then the 8k.