Shutting my mouth and listening
I recently posted about planning on lapping my Naniwa 12k (that so many of you were so influential in convincing me to get) with my norton lapping plate. I saw a negative reply, and it got me pondering. My bull-headedness left me in a sour mood and I was basically planning to say to hell with you nit-pickers and lap it with the norton anyway.
Then I remembered what brought me here in the first place. I tried to learn this gig on my own, and sliced my face and spent hours with a blade on the wrong hone before realizing that the experience of others is a much better way to learn this than butching my own expensive blades and slightly less expensive face.
So, A DMT D8C is in the mail. I have a few blades I REALLY want to touch up on the 12k, but I will wait until the lapping plate gets here (A quick hit with some WD sandpaper showed conclusively that it is not flat). If the USPS has sorted it's issues, this time next week, I'll have the 325, and a day or two after that I'll get back to the bench and start working on making some wicked edges again!