Shapton Pros+Glass

[Steve56]

Gentlemen,

I have been thinking again, usually dangerous and always entertaining...

While at the glass shop to have a piece of plate glass cut for lapping (after which a friend gave me a piece for free, sigh) I also had a couple of 8-1/4 x 2-3/4 x 3/16" pieces cut. These are the dimensions of Shapton hones.

My idea is to glue these pieces to my Shapton Pros, and make a glass stone-like arrangement. I'm not sure it's needed, but many waterstones will warp a little when wet and Shapton did make the Glass Stone line for a reason.

Any reasons not to do it? They will still fit in and on their ventilated boxes with the glass attached. Looks pretty cool too. The biggest headache will be getting everything lined up but I have clamps for that.

Also does anyone have any recommendations for low shrinkage epoxies? I think that if the epoxy shrinks a lot on curing that might defeat the purpose of a stabilizing glass plate. In the second image, the plates aren't glued.

Cheers, Steve