Thread: Shapton Glass Stones - Questions

Originally Posted by Spartigus

Thanks

Yeah my next purchase will be a DMT .

So i could make it smooth enough with like 325 grit paper?

Smooth???? Flat is the key....!!!!

The goal of lapping is to get the surface flat.... so the first question
is will you get it flat.

If it is not smooth enough you can use a finer paper.
But even smoothness is not a big deal.... by the second
razor the irregularities from your 325 paper will be mostly
gone.

AND the key reason for flat is so when you change stones/ grit
the shape of the surface of each hone is the same. If all
your stones had identical dishing even as much as the thickness of
a thin coin the razor would hone up just fine.

I have not heard that new Shapton Glass hones need a
surface treatment the way a new Norton seem to.