Thread: Advice on lapping plates

So, a word of caution so you don’t waste a lot of time or drive yourself crazy, those stones either will finish, or they won’t.

Few can improve a 10 or 12k edge. Better than honing identical razors, pick your best shaver and hone it on the 5 stones, to find which stones are finishers. Then experiment with the finishers, the rest are paper weights.

For me, a natural finisher can improve a 12k edge or I am not interested. Learning a Natural stone is a process, you have to learn the stone, to squeak out its potential. Some give it up, some make you work.