Thread: Yellow lake oilstone

Yep that sounds better. Look on that stone how it is made. It could help if you will be looking for another one like that. Enjoy the hone.

I have one of this brand. Very fine, probably near a good Thuringian with water. It used to be purple, but now it's black, and the slurry from purplish it became dark too. Strange thing. But I don't really mind. I like it. I think, their purplish variety is far more common than the rest of the old yellow lake named hones.

I have always avoided them because of the name "Yellow Lake"....... To close to "Yellow Snow".... Which then it would be easy to identitfy by the smell.... Sorry, I don't get out much...... Vivid imagination really..... It's not healthy.....

was that inches or cm?

Inches I may live in Canada, but I'm still American

eBay - The UK's Online Marketplace my new yellow lake. It has a stamp of salmen, now, I'm not sure if it's the "support genuine British labour" or a salmen one, as far as I know, they are different companies. It doesn't look like a classic purple one, I hope it's one of the other rarer kinds. I will soon test it and post my results.

Sorry to ask Vasilis. Do you have stamped purple YL? So far I have not seen one therefore calling it "classic" comes to me as surprise.
Otherwise congratulations to your new hone. If you will be sealing the sticker/decal be carefull if you use nail warnish or something simmilar it can damage the sticker/decal.

I will do my best to seal it but I'm not sure with what. I was indeed thinking to use nail warnish or whatever its called, but if anyone has a better idea how to do it, I would be glad to hear it. IF it is actually a salmen one, and not just a sticker. The stone has not yet arrived, but it soon will. And I hope it's not the classic purple variety.

If it is purple I am willing to swap it for grey one.

I've already have a purple one in good condition. What are their differences? And not only the grey, all 4 kinds, if we could categorize them, which is the finer and the coarser, the faster and the slower?