Thread: Lapping Stone

Sandpaper releases GRIT...

If you want a smooth surface, and no grit embedded in your soft Waterstones, then you might try using a Hard Arkansas stone after the "325ish" level on Diamond Plates (DMT, DGLP or Atoma)

I have never found any gain in going to that higher sheen of polish on Waterstones YMMV, on Oil stones I do want that high polished surface..


There is a ton of really good info on Polishing Waterstones in the archives here much of it written my Mparker that you should search out, there are tricks to getting a High Sheen polish on the Waterstones using only the stone themselves too..

ps: The first time you are honing a polished razor and one odd errant piece of grit scratches across the face of the razor or even worse chips the fine edge, it will be the last time you ever use sandpaper