And one of a purple lune
La Lune Special Stone...Anybody got one?
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Thx
They can't really be mistaken for anything else. Like coticules, once you handle a couple, you can spot them miles away.
The purple seems to have two tones. You find them quite redish, and a darker purple colour. I've keep this stone showing the transition.
I have yet to find a real difference in honing, even if overtime for some reason I seem to favour the dark ones.
The pyrenees is sometimes mistaken for the blue, but they are nothing alike. On listings the sizes and particular hue of blue are the give away. Bevels and and saw lines can be present.
Seen a couple of lorraines mistaken for la lune purple. The swirl is not as marked, they have a very faint glitter and the white pinkish spots are unmistakable. Not as dense or fine, it autosluries a tiny bit. This one is 14x7cm. I admit on listings it would be difficult to tell them apart, but they are very cool hones, and not a loss.
The purple seems to have two tones. You find them quite redish, and a darker purple colour. I've keep this stone showing the transition.
I have yet to find a real difference in honing, even if overtime for some reason I seem to favour the dark ones.
The pyrenees is sometimes mistaken for the blue, but they are nothing alike. On listings the sizes and particular hue of blue are the give away. Bevels and and saw lines can be present.
Seen a couple of lorraines mistaken for la lune purple. The swirl is not as marked, they have a very faint glitter and the white pinkish spots are unmistakable. Not as dense or fine, it autosluries a tiny bit. This one is 14x7cm. I admit on listings it would be difficult to tell them apart, but they are very cool hones, and not a loss.
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8x 2.5
Last photo is stone wet
Back of my stone has a light pattern?m in one corner making stone unique
Rest of stone dark purple
Objects in pics for scale
Feels hard and dense
Not sure how i feel about one corner on back lighter color
What do you guys think?
What do you mean? I have seen green on them before.. And white.. Your stone looks legit to type. You would never mistake these for welsh stones or vermonts anyway in use.
Changes in colour don't seen to make a diference. Ligther, darker green and in between...Try it out and if you think is problematic contact Nicolas.
Thx, hope pics helped
Purchased some pure glycerin, gonna try tonight to take a razor that i have familiar edge, give it a try,
I need to re read thread best usage and test results,
When using glycerin, just use few drops ?or some diluted method ?
Gonna also try mineral oil, sewing machine oil etc…
But first try will be glycerin , 15 strokes or so to see any difference, test edge,,
Purchased some pure glycerin, gonna try tonight to take a razor that i have familiar edge, give it a try,
I need to re read thread best usage and test results,
When using glycerin, just use few drops ?or some diluted method ?
Gonna also try mineral oil, sewing machine oil etc…
But first try will be glycerin , 15 strokes or so to see any difference, test edge,,
I Wet the surface and did about 6 drops of glycerin and it seems to have giving an excellent edge in a test not full shave yet.
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Thx, just did one of my razors wet stone drops spread out, 15 lite laps, clean off stone every 5 laps new water / glycerin mix,,, did toe leading and heal leading, then x strokes ( stopped at 15 laps, testing)
Felt weird and good fun,honing on oil, kinda reached a zen feeling hard to explain
My stone deep dark purple when wet
Brief arm hair test snipped off hair
Few more strokes to finish, awaiting test shave
Unfortunately shaved this am so would not be fair tp test as my Heljestrand gave me bbs.
Tempting but try to await am[emoji23]
Razor used was a cape Swedish steel with all ready amazing Shobu mizu edge
Gonna use same soap etc,,,for brief initial test
I know the edge on cape as i created it from scratch and thought good razor to test
Few notes
Stone flat and smooth with glycerin and water kinda zen feeling
I know stone fast but does not feel fast to me but awaiting test shave, maybe not fast with oil but water?
So far loving this french rock, unique natural stone
Will report back and i know i will need to learn this rock as not all rocks equal etc….
Oh,, i need a box for this thing if turns out amazing edge
I have a another razor honed on a Vermont Green slate that has an amazing edge sharp and smooth but tad mire on sharp side ( amazing so will reach back in memory cells to access this French rock performance ,,
[emoji354], trying to await am test shave [emoji3]
Felt weird and good fun,honing on oil, kinda reached a zen feeling hard to explain
My stone deep dark purple when wet
Brief arm hair test snipped off hair
Few more strokes to finish, awaiting test shave
Unfortunately shaved this am so would not be fair tp test as my Heljestrand gave me bbs.
Tempting but try to await am[emoji23]
Razor used was a cape Swedish steel with all ready amazing Shobu mizu edge
Gonna use same soap etc,,,for brief initial test
I know the edge on cape as i created it from scratch and thought good razor to test
Few notes
Stone flat and smooth with glycerin and water kinda zen feeling
I know stone fast but does not feel fast to me but awaiting test shave, maybe not fast with oil but water?
So far loving this french rock, unique natural stone
Will report back and i know i will need to learn this rock as not all rocks equal etc….
Oh,, i need a box for this thing if turns out amazing edge
I have a another razor honed on a Vermont Green slate that has an amazing edge sharp and smooth but tad mire on sharp side ( amazing so will reach back in memory cells to access this French rock performance ,,
[emoji354], trying to await am test shave [emoji3]
Few more pics awaiting test shave am
Stone right shobu mizu, la lune darker
Meant stone left,, your right my left lol, la lune should be easy detected lol
Tried oil, glycerin and many others, but keep coming back to water. Sometimes it needs a tiny amount of dish soap to wet properly, but it dilutes rapidelly.
Personally hand pressure control seems more beneficial than the diferent concoctions I've tried.
I just honed a grelot Lotus on a purple. Very weird steel. It took a long time to max out. Feed back was diferent and harder to read than the friodur and TI dandy did earlier.
Personally hand pressure control seems more beneficial than the diferent concoctions I've tried.
I just honed a grelot Lotus on a purple. Very weird steel. It took a long time to max out. Feed back was diferent and harder to read than the friodur and TI dandy did earlier.
Thx for information, using water [emoji98] dish soap how many laps or how many minutes would you guess you use, how do you describe your finish edge compare to any other finisher
Also what size is your stone
Thx
My main razor purple is 12x2.5"
I do have the 3, 4, 5 and 8" sizes, but I use them much less.
Time is variable, but way more than 50 or 60 passes. I tend to stream a movie while sharpening. Some first time razors can take a movie or more for the full progression coti-purple-Fnat. Re-honing a clean razor, I can do about two razors for a movie.
I raise a slight slurry. It opens the pore and helps get the steel in to the grit. I hone to feel, keep going at normal pressure till suction starts. Then I start playing with water and pressure and blade areas to even out the feel all along the edge. As it gets even, I keep lifting pressure and watering often. It comes a moment where the steel glides above the hone, all feel of honing gone. Done...
Then I move to my Fnat. If I was very good on the purple, the siction is not far away, and I start the same proces.
Is tricky. If you lift pressure too fast, the bevel will polish but the edge will not form right. Siction tells you have a good chance to be at the edge. By progresivelly lifting pressure you are able to keep honing, and you can ride just the rigth feeling of the hone working on the steel, and be sure it does so all along the edge. Siction keep catching up, but you keep lifting until there is not enough down force for the steel to engage the stone, and the blade slides.
That phase after the first moment you feel succion, and you keep the steel evenly honing barely ahead of getting stuck on the hone, is when the magic happens, and for me the most enjoyable.
I do have the 3, 4, 5 and 8" sizes, but I use them much less.
Time is variable, but way more than 50 or 60 passes. I tend to stream a movie while sharpening. Some first time razors can take a movie or more for the full progression coti-purple-Fnat. Re-honing a clean razor, I can do about two razors for a movie.
I raise a slight slurry. It opens the pore and helps get the steel in to the grit. I hone to feel, keep going at normal pressure till suction starts. Then I start playing with water and pressure and blade areas to even out the feel all along the edge. As it gets even, I keep lifting pressure and watering often. It comes a moment where the steel glides above the hone, all feel of honing gone. Done...
Then I move to my Fnat. If I was very good on the purple, the siction is not far away, and I start the same proces.
Is tricky. If you lift pressure too fast, the bevel will polish but the edge will not form right. Siction tells you have a good chance to be at the edge. By progresivelly lifting pressure you are able to keep honing, and you can ride just the rigth feeling of the hone working on the steel, and be sure it does so all along the edge. Siction keep catching up, but you keep lifting until there is not enough down force for the steel to engage the stone, and the blade slides.
That phase after the first moment you feel succion, and you keep the steel evenly honing barely ahead of getting stuck on the hone, is when the magic happens, and for me the most enjoyable.
Test first shave off this natural French rock
Only was going to do 15 laps glycerin water but ended up doing about 25,
Keep playing looking at rock last nite, ( boy can’t tell everyone i paid cash fir a rock, are we crazy?
Purchased said going big or go home, so spent extra, purchase 8x 2.5,
Did i screw up ?, was this a bad purchase, why did i need it as i all ready own a marvelous magical jnat,,,
Few notes wanted to do test shave with glycerin first before trying other mediums including water
Did a quick one lap using mineral oil, did not like feels, glycerin which i never heard of seems best. For me
Verdict and shave was marvelous, sharp and butter smooth but tad sharp which is what i like,
I did 25 laps glycerin/ water as i wanted to makes sure i could access edge versus edge that was on razor
Razor was all ready marvelous as was shaving with maybe 3rd use shobu mizu edge, but putting 25 more laps using this rock up the game and certainly the sharpness, as was now sharper and still smooth
While i am excited about this rock and not trying to justify my purchase this rock is outstanding and is climbing up my chart on edges
I purchased this rock because of uniqueness and for it reputation and first shave certainly was not let down
I never have experience a coti edge or escher/ thurigan to date but been reports this equals thurigan escher level some saying better
Bottom line still testing this rock but it is a keeper and is performing as a good finisher on the amazing side of spectrum potential.
Wanted to post my initial thoughts and i am amazed, sharp and butter smooth no irritation bbs,,
Welcome to the den
Up next test different razor, 15 laps only, water glycerin on a Heljestrand mk6, which has an ok edge but not amazing,cheers
Only was going to do 15 laps glycerin water but ended up doing about 25,
Keep playing looking at rock last nite, ( boy can’t tell everyone i paid cash fir a rock, are we crazy?
Purchased said going big or go home, so spent extra, purchase 8x 2.5,
Did i screw up ?, was this a bad purchase, why did i need it as i all ready own a marvelous magical jnat,,,
Few notes wanted to do test shave with glycerin first before trying other mediums including water
Did a quick one lap using mineral oil, did not like feels, glycerin which i never heard of seems best. For me
Verdict and shave was marvelous, sharp and butter smooth but tad sharp which is what i like,
I did 25 laps glycerin/ water as i wanted to makes sure i could access edge versus edge that was on razor
Razor was all ready marvelous as was shaving with maybe 3rd use shobu mizu edge, but putting 25 more laps using this rock up the game and certainly the sharpness, as was now sharper and still smooth
While i am excited about this rock and not trying to justify my purchase this rock is outstanding and is climbing up my chart on edges
I purchased this rock because of uniqueness and for it reputation and first shave certainly was not let down
I never have experience a coti edge or escher/ thurigan to date but been reports this equals thurigan escher level some saying better
Bottom line still testing this rock but it is a keeper and is performing as a good finisher on the amazing side of spectrum potential.
Wanted to post my initial thoughts and i am amazed, sharp and butter smooth no irritation bbs,,
Welcome to the den
Up next test different razor, 15 laps only, water glycerin on a Heljestrand mk6, which has an ok edge but not amazing,cheers
Test #2,
Razor had great edge but not amazing,
Used tape, mk6, and did 16 laps glycerin water, 6-8 small drops, concentrated good laps,,
Shave Result marvelous, definitely put an amazing edge on razor
Sharp and smooth, let me explain the sharpness felt sharp not on skin but sharp deadly for whiskers ,Yes stone new to me but wanted to report findings good or bad but I’m so far loving this edge
Just reporting
Razor had great edge but not amazing,
Used tape, mk6, and did 16 laps glycerin water, 6-8 small drops, concentrated good laps,,
Shave Result marvelous, definitely put an amazing edge on razor
Sharp and smooth, let me explain the sharpness felt sharp not on skin but sharp deadly for whiskers ,Yes stone new to me but wanted to report findings good or bad but I’m so far loving this edge
Just reporting
I also think, that you can do far more laps on water and glycerin. I did it with one razor and it kept getting better and better
Thx as may try more laps next time, there truly was an amazing effect on the edge, as it was a good edge that this stone took from good to marvelous.
How fo three french rocks compare to eschers and thurigans stones?
If anyone has experience with both
Thxs
My next test is to see how long this edge last
Thx
