Thread: Vintage Yellow Lake/ Lynn Melynllyn

I found this 7" X 2-3/8" x 1/2" vintage hone today, I think it's a Llyn Melynllyn

Definitely not a BBW, but has purple slurry. It looked terrible on all sides when I got it, I lapped one side so far.
Sorry about the pics

It certainly looks like a purple hone slate of some sort - some of them do bear a marked resemblence to BBWS, even down to the secondary sort of 'grain' that you can see in the stone when wet - a kind of 3D effect. Are there any greenish circles ellipses or spots in it - that's a real give-away for purple hone slate - not all of them have this kind of marking, though.

Regards,
Neil

It's fairly uniform in color with a few darker streaks. I've got one of the purple stones that AJ (ebay welsh hones) and it looks very similar

That one has more of a red tone than my LM, mine is something like a grey/pastel purple, but mine also is an older one not the recent cuttings. Yours definitely has a grain similar to my BBW.

Again, I've only seen my LM tho, Neil has undoubtably seen many more.

It is not a BBW, but, isn't it too purple for a Llyn Melynllyn? Perhaps a variety of it. I was honing a razor today with one, the "support genuine British labour" yellow lake, they are great. The pattern on the whet photo looks like one.

Here some daylight photos, Vintage hone left, AJ hone right. One shot dry, one wet