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I've been honing my razors on it going straight from setting the bevel on a cheap 1k king stone.

Its important to get the bevel spot on with no burs or flat spots, then finish on very light passes...

I like mine with Water, it cuts fast with slurry. Then it seems very slow without. I don't know if it is giving a finer poish without slurry or not. I bought 2 so I'll see how the other compares....

Interesting, in any case it seems a very versatile stone. I think I will use mine as a kind of barbers hone, on water to top up the edge of the other razors in my growing rotation. I've been...

Part of the amazement is that it was £8 and it works!! Try taking one side of yours to 180 and the other to 6000 or whatever. I'd be very interested to know if there is any real difference. I found...

Thanks yeah, I read your bit on it. It was very useful indeed. And I agree that it must be around 6-8k. I'm not quite ready to go for a real high finishing stone yet. But i'm wondering if I take one...

Hello all I have added a Dragon slate hone from inigo jones to my rather minimal collection. Before I was relying on the use of differing pressures and a synthetic nagura off a king 1k to get as...