Thread: Hi everyone!!

BTW it was said:' DON'T use plexiglass' !!

welcome nick,

lapping seems confusing, because you can do it in many ways and they all will work. the cheapest is sandpaper and a flat surface - not sure where you get marble/granite/glass in canada, probably in home/tools/hardware kind of store. I thought that the marble plate of my wire cheese cutter may work as well - haven't tried it yet since i've got few good honed razors and a lapped hone for whenever i go to it.
the lower-grid diamond hones seem to be very liked by few members here. Look at Josh Earl's posts.
In any case I think if you can spare another 25-35 it will be wise to get a shave-ready razor from this forum. It won't be brand-spanking-new like your Dovo, but will actually shave and you'll have a benchmark as to what to aim for.
Not sure how fast classic ships, but if you've just ordered it may be worth while giving them a call in case they haven't yet shipped your order. the idea is to amend it to include honing.

Anyways, glad you found this place - I'm a newbie myself and it's been invaluable

I agree with Nicolas, the cheapest way to lap a Norton, from what people have told me on the thread I started on that exact topic, is to get some wet/dry sandpaper, tape it to a piece of granite you can get at home depot or as a scrap from a counter store, and do it that way...I reckon that's what I'm going to do as well actually.

I just thought you may have wanted the "easiest" way to do it, which would be the Lee Valley route.

Good luck,

Mark

I'd also get the Norton. Kinda got sick of using the sandpaper/granite method. As for the grits, if you decide to use what I'm currently using, do 180 grit until the pencil marks start coming off and then just smoothe it over with 600 or 1000. That'll save you a whackload of time.

thanks a lot for all the advice, I think out of convenience I will look to buy the norton lapping tool. And I will probably take a look for a inexpensive honed razor from this website, I wonder if there are any Canadians who sell them. I would call and see if I could get my new Dovo done before it gets to me but I already recieved an email saying it has been shipped.
Thanks again eveyone!!!!
Nick

Nick, if you pick one up, shipping via USPS isn't that expensive (only a couple of bucks) and you don't get nailed with brokerage fees like you would when they ship via UPS. You might as well take advantage of the strong CDN dollar

good call, I keep forgetting that how even the doller is now. I will post up an ad in the for sale forum, thanks!