Quote Originally Posted by khaos View Post
Which is exactly what I have been saying all along... *sigh*
In our standard, accepted hones, particles do the cutting, and they are cemented by something softer than steel. Just like the sediment in water is the abrasive, not the water itself.
With a "solid" hone (jasper, corundum, jade, etc... the non sedimentary, non metamorphic-from-sedimentary)I believe the surface would have to be textured, like a steel file. DMT for example, you never expose new particles, its always the exact same surface, so the texture matters. However thats a bad example because no one has an 8x3 diamond, so they had to texture the surface by gluing particles to it.
Hey Khaos,
How would you explain, for example...my Surgical Black Arkansas and my Translucent Arkansas, are both lapped on a series 400/1000 grit diamond plate, yet both perform significantly different from each other?

Thanks,

Mac