Thread: Lapping Naniwa SS 12000

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Nothing more to be said than welcome to the forum!!

I'm with lz6 . I use the DMT 325 on my Naniwa 12k and it works very well. Do it under running water or they will adhere to each other, and rinse both regularly to get the slough off.

No DMT is complete without a holder, they are damn slippery.

The DMT I have has rubber feet so I place some of that non slip net like material in the sink and put the DMT on top of that. Run the water lightly while honing the stone on the DMT. she go nowhere.

Bob

I had a 6" 325 DMT that I wore out using it to lap stones. Rather than pay the cost of a 8" DMT I opted to go this route.. I went to a local glass shop and had a 1/4" glass cut to the size of a sheet of sand paper. I can thus just lay a full sheet of paper on a perfectly flat glass.. wet it and lap away. works great.

I do it differently. I have a Shapton lapping plate and use that with grit. it works with everything.

I lapped the Norton 4/8k and my Nani 12k with the Naniwa Flattening stone...seemed to work fine.