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05-01-2012, 12:04 AM #1
I just got my welsh thuringian from AJ today and immediately played with it with some blades. First I lapped it with my DMT 325 and it didn't take much, it came pretty flat. It looks very "slate-ish) dry but wet green. gray blue lines appear. Under the scope there are ALL kind of sparklies, like this pic of a C12K
http://straightrazorpalace.com/honing...ng-escher.html
I choose a 1963 5/8" russian blade I had just honed on a Deep Rock Vintage Coticule with a dilucot yesterday and got a good but not amazing shave from this morning. I want to see if the WT( welsh thuri) would advance the edge.
I built up a slurry with the supplied slurry stone( not easy BTW and not a lot of slurry either) and did 20 X strokes and tested. VERY much sharper! Very surprised. Another 20 laps as well and even sharper!
40 laps on leather and I'll shave test it tomorrow. The scratch patterns aren't all that pretty, especially since I've been using Jnats a lot lately and have gotten attached to those sandblasted mirror finishes.
BUT this thing feels like it will make the blade very sharp,even as a finishing stone but the real question for me is how smooth? The Jnats of late have been sharp and buttery so that will be hard to beat.
Also I'm not sure if one is supposed to finish on slurry or water with these?
Knowledges?
thx
Last edited by RogueRazor; 05-01-2012 at 12:07 AM.
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05-01-2012, 02:41 AM #2
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Thanked: 43I have been using mine for a while and it does improve an 8K edge and gets the razor very keen. After a little stropping the smoothness comes up some.
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05-01-2012, 02:49 AM #3
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05-01-2012, 02:57 AM #4
If I were to buy one of the stones AJ estimates to be around 15k and use it after my norton 8k would that be too big of a grit jump?
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05-01-2012, 03:01 AM #5
I would think so but I'm a newbie myself.A Chinese 12 k waterstone is seriously cheap ( $40.) and is an easy jump(plus it's probably not going to be 12 k). As I wrote though, under the scope, the sparklies and the base material of the C12k and the Welsh Thuri I bought look very close .Or you could get a coticule bout fairly inexpensively to bridge the gap.
It's a killer deal imo. I just paid 35 for a jnat nagura that is probably the size of the slurry stone that came for free with the WT. But I haven't shaved off it yet, either )
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05-03-2012, 10:36 AM #6
I recall reading a comprehensive test by several wet shavers on this set of hones
It included using the slurry stone on different hones, light slurry, heavy slurry, just water and also oil
I just cant recall if it was on this forum or some other one
I have tried a number of different searches and not found it here yet
If anyone knows of it or has read it or has a link I know there was a lot of information that would be great to share
I will keep looking and see if I can find it
Rick
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05-03-2012, 10:53 AM #7
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Thanked: 67Was it this thread?
http://straightrazorpalace.com/advan...ns-tongue.html
This is various people comparing the stones in the set from the UK ebay slate seller: a DT, an LM and a higher grit slate.
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05-04-2012, 06:29 PM #8
Jeltz has been getting nice results going from the 6k King to this stone. I've not got this stone but going to my purple slate from AJ from the king 6k works. Whilst AJ has estimated them around 15k others have leaned towards 12k, 8k and below. If you do end up with an exceptionally fine example that makes the jump from 8k seems too much, do a happy dance.
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05-05-2012, 12:19 AM #9
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05-07-2012, 04:15 PM #10
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Thanked: 34I picked up a set of the three hones, and have been playing with them for a few days now. I have found my sweet spot to be chosera 1k, 5k Naniwa ss, 8k Naniwa ss, then i go through a progression of the three stones DT, LW, WT, this is of course modified based on the current state of the razor. Wicked edges and buttery shaves. Depending on the blade I have found that the LW and WT finish different blades better so I test both and then decide which of the two to stop at for each individual blade. I also tried a lather on both stones and have found it to work well for some and not for others. I have not tried oil yet still pondering if i want to even attempt that route. These stones seem to have quite a bit of versatility to them with many options to work with. Glen's Pigtail strokes do seem to help allot when going from the 8k Naniwa to the DT. All in all I like the shaves off these stones so far and enjoy experimenting with them.
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