Thread: Diamond plates

Originally Posted by DaveW

The tough thing to do with the atomas is to actually wear them out (with tools). It's easy to wear out DMT's regular offerings with tools, but the atomas get slower and slower and/but never actually give up.

After seeing Neil's trouble with acquisition, I feel pretty good about only having 8 full sized hones/plates...well, I guess that's the same number, but none are the DGLP for me.

I love the ezelaps for tools (polycrystalline diamonds - they just get finer and finer but always have a sharp cut), but they aren't as good for stone lapping as the monocrystalline hones.

I am looking at my honing station as I type, Dave...

On it are all the diamond ones I mentioned plus a usless double-sided perforated one (totally useless) that I forgot about, alongside:-

a full set of choseras
a snow-white naniwa 8k,
a 16k and a 30k shapton glass stone,
15k pro shapton,
a la veinette and a les latneuses coticule,
a large yellow-spotted BBW,
a small celebrated water hone,
a small escher brand hone,
2x dalmore blues,
4x TOS,
1x llyn idwal and 1x charnley forest,
a smoky and a white translucent arkansas,
a 20k suehiro gokumyo or whatever its called,
a green thuringian.

Under the desk sits a box containing more dalmores, LIs, purple slates, a dozen CFs, two coticules. Alongside that is a pile of boxed hones including CFs, LIs, coticules, 8 celebrated water hones, three canbrock silkstones, several green slates and several unidentified hones. In my shed there are more. Upstairs there are more...

I feel sick....
Regards,
Neil