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06-07-2008, 08:08 PM #1
Poll: How often do you lap your Norton...
Guys,
I've been experimenting with a Norton again after more than a year, and I've been liking it much better this time around. Part of it is that I'm doing all the heavy lifting on the DMT hones, so by the time I get to the Norton I'm just polishing the edge.
I have another theory about why it's working better, but I wanted to see what other people's experiences were before I explained what I'm noticing.
So, if you could answer these two questions, it might be an interesting discussion.
How often (in terms of razors) do you lap your Norton?
How satisfied are you with the edges you get from your Norton, one a scale of 1 (not satisfied) to 5 (very satisfied)?
Thanks for your input, everyone!
Josh
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06-07-2008, 08:18 PM #2
I lap mine every 2-3 razors maybe with my D8C. This way, it is a much quicker lapping. I.E.- I haven't done heavy work on the hones for so long that any real dishing or anything occurs. So it's just a light lap every couple razors. I am satisfied (4.5/5) with the edges I get. I think they do their job as well as they can. I think to give a 5 it would have to do the work for me lol.
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06-08-2008, 01:28 AM #3
I'm lapping my stones at least every 6 or 7 razors. I use the Norton flatting stone. It boils down to dressing it every time I hone. It takes about 5 minutes for a 1K, 4K and a 8K. I do like the results I get. I do polish on a 12k Chinese and progress to bench strops at 3µ pasted to a .5µ diamond and then on horsehide.
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06-08-2008, 02:55 AM #4
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Thanked: 4It's not so much that I lap it as give it a few wipes with my dmt1200 when it gets glazed from honing.
This degunking keeps the norton cutting nicely and has the side effect of keeping it pretty level pretty much all of the time.
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06-08-2008, 06:07 AM #5
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Thanked: 7I lap mine everytime I get them out. I usually do a couple at a time though. The Nortons are the only ones I've used besides a Chinese 12K, but they seem easy to work with. Still being new to all this, all the razors I've honed and been satisfied as being shave ready, have all produced fine shaves.
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06-08-2008, 03:49 PM #6
I lap mine before a session after soaking it.
Usually, I only do 2-4 blades in a session.
This takes very little time and ensures that I have a nice flat surface. When I was first starting out before discovering lapping, it seemed like I was getting very inconsistent results. My lapping process seems to have made it much easier to hone consistently.
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06-08-2008, 07:17 PM #7
well i have to be contrary... i lap every 30-40 razors... which ia about the time i find honing is more work than normal. my nortons re alway in water and i do a lot of ebite specials.
the last weekend when i lapped them they had a really odd wear pattern... they were "high in the middle and you could plainey see where my x-strokes started and ended ... took all of 20 minutes to make the 220/1k and 4k/8k combos flat.
YMMVBe just and fear not.
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06-08-2008, 07:31 PM #8
Every couple hundred passes I refresh the surface with the DMT-C because it starts to glaze over with metal particles and not cut as well. The number of razors depends on how much work each would need; it could be lapped a couple of times per razor, or I could make it a couple of razors before refreshing/lapping.
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06-08-2008, 07:36 PM #9
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06-09-2008, 01:59 AM #10