Quote Originally Posted by gugi View Post
really? this is all news to me. can you point out the pictures which show unlapped hones? for as far as i remember lapping the hones has been considered standard and necessary practice on this forum. as a matter of fact josh earl made a photo tutorial a year or two back of lapping with sandpaper (the cheap version) and it's been part of the wiki for a long time now.

for example lynn has repeatedly posted that the current production nortons require some good lapping to go past the more grainy top surface.
when i just bought my naniwas last year glen told me to give the 1000 good lapping several times leaving it to dry in between, it certainly started working properly after that.

I don't have to search far for this, there's guys right in this very thread who have admitted to it - the OTB Naniwa guys. Just because people have delivered the message over and over doesn't mean the point has been made. I myself talk about this on Knifeforums util I'm blue in the face yet upon posting this very same topic over there we have a bunch of people admitting that they never heard it before.