Thread: Welsh Slate Hone

the DT will provide a nice shaveable edge, some drag, but smooth and no tugging.

I don't know where the domain of finishers starts, I would say anything that can be used before a plane leather strop to give a nice shave. so I guess anything above 6 to 8 K can be considered a finisher

A while back I bought some chalk board slate & some slate used in old windows at a school. I will have to say the chalk board slate is a pretty good hone. I flattened it & made a hone about 1/2" X 3" X 8" & I like it.
Its interesting to see the different layers of silt that were of different material ever so slightly to make up this bed of slate.

Dave

Going to my Dragon's tongue from an 8K Norton I see no improvement. I don't see any degradation either, so I'm satisfied to say that mine has the same performance as an 8k hone. I need to do a little more testing with it, but I've worked a razor from 1K up with slurry dilution and the result was pretty good. I'll have to do a proper shave test with a razor honed on just the Dragon's Tongue, but as it stands I feel comfortable saying I could probably live with just a 1K hone for bevel setting and a Dragon's tongue for everything else. I'll play with it more when my next lot of razors comes in.