Thread: For hone master's

It's pretty expensive, but I love the Shapton DGLP....love it.

If I did a lot of honing and lapping I would definitely get the shapton flattening plate. I don't have one but got to play with one and it makes lapping a breeze. There is one other thing that might be better but haven't seen it here which is a large brick like looking plate of ceramic with grooves on which you throw some aluminum oxide and get to work. A video I saw flattened a stone in like a minute flat and there was literally slurry bleeding from the stone, I mean like severed jugular type bleeding, kill bill movies aint got nothing.

The thing about the GDLP, aside from the excellent design, is that there is no flattening plate/stone as close to dead flat as it is. Except maybe the Shapton DRLP. For the perfectionists among us.

I've used both and unless you need to flatten planes and chisels and such there is no advantage to the DRLP. I personally have no need for the reference plate. I wouldn't refuse a free one, but the DGLP is so close to it for what we do it's not worth twice the price IMO.