Thread: Chinese 12k

that's rather interesting - so what did you get then? a chinese stone or a belgian one?

i think also there is a mistake with attaching 12k to the said stone. it's a natural stone so grit is not really applicable, but if one has to attach grit to it, the correct number is quite a bit lower too.

it's interesting to me how something wrong repeated thousands of times becomes just the standard way to refer

Originally Posted by gugi

that's rather interesting - so what did you get then? a chinese stone or a belgian one?

i think also there is a mistake with attaching 12k to the said stone. it's a natural stone so grit is not really applicable, but if one has to attach grit to it, the correct number is quite a bit lower too.

it's interesting to me how something wrong repeated thousands of times becomes just the standard way to refer

I'm assuming I ordered a chinese natural stone. Since you offered the correction, though, I'm gonna start referring to it as such. The grit it substantially smoother than my norton 8k, so even if the natural stone was 10k, that'd still be sufficient for polishing, no?

I'm sure member services here offer lapping, but could you point me in the direction of anyone in particular?

Lapping services cost too much to offer. Hire a college student. Its just manual labor requiring no special skills at all. Only repetition.

Well, as a hard-working college student, myself....I'd be more than willing to lap my own, I just don't currently possess a lapping stone. How expensive are they and what's a good one to buy? I know I've seen alot of different ones on sites like CS.com that come in many different price ranges, too.

Just use wet/dry sandpaper. And a $2.00 granite tile.

Originally Posted by Leighton

Just use wet/dry sandpaper. And a $2.00 granite tile.

Agreed.

I picked up a flat granite tile from a local hardware store for about $5 I think. Add a few grits of wet/dry sandpaper (ex. maybe 220, 400, 600, etc.) and you're good to go. The only thing about the granite tile is that it probably isn't as "truly" flat as to the standards of a DMT for example.

I'm having trouble imagining the sandpaper not sliding all over the tile. Are you supposed to use very little pressure?

You use water during the process. It makes the sandpaper stick.

although i am new to all of it as far as i know you have to put water on the tile and maybe a bit on the sandpaper it will then stick to the tile a bit better. it will probably still slide a bit but thats how its done the cheap way .
i will try that myself the first time soon.

You know that feeling you get when you realize something you couldn't understand and feel like an idiot because it's so plain and simple? Yeah...

I'm gonna swing by Home Depot while I'm driving around for work...seems easy enough.