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This is for people which does a lot honing work.picture of the stone is made in Japan price $78.Flattining stone
Makes Job 50 times faster does leave scratches on escher's belgian etc.i use this then i use 1200 DMTthat s it hone is ready. i thought this may help.
Where did you get it?
Yes do tell where u found it i trashed my 1200 on my other hones so be careful what you use it on
i bought from ebay.but this side has and people complains about it.works for me .i am tired of dmt cleaning.
Ice Bear Ceramic Flattening Stone : Buy Ice Bear Ceramic Flattening Stone at Axminster Power Tool Centre
they have cheap too
The japan Woodworker has a similar stone but as I recall its blue or dark grey designed for flattening water stones. I don't recall the price.
Hello, Sham,Quote:
Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl
It's almost a year later, are you still using this lapper?
Kevin
wow when i saw this thread made me confuse.
Answer to you question is this. it is very course stone. eats up very fast. i use only if stone needs a lot lapping . example ebay buys. it is very heavy stone too.
Just an added note ..... at the time Sham made the original post he was using the DMT 1200 to lap following the coarse Ice Bear stone. He later found that his 1200 was ruined because it is not coarse enough to lap waterstones.
Just posting this to make sure anyone who wasn't around then doesn't read the OP and think that they can lap with their 1200 without damaging it. DMT recommends the D8C 325 or the X or better yet the XX.
Even the 325 will wear down after a couple years :p Mine is getting pretty fine :p On my daily use razor hones I haven't needed to flatten them in months. So I don't worry about wearing out my DMT on them.
It's only when you get a new hone and need to do mainainance on it that the worry kicks in. I have been using the same two DMT, 120 and 325, for more than two years on 99% water stones with very good results, sandpaper is for other projects, however I'm getting a few oil stones lately that I'm useing the sandpaper on... ugh what a pain...
I used one of the "Cement Block" flattening stone when I first started, it was soon clear that these stones do not stay flat long. So keep that in mind.
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.