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    Default 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.
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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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