Quote Originally Posted by Phrank View Post
For lapping I picked this up, a Naniwa Flattening Stone, they are fairly inexpensive:

Naniwa Flattening Stone

Mind you, I'm not by any means someone who spends lots of time honing. I've lapped my Norton 4/8 twice, and my Nani 12k twice, using the pencil grid. I really only refresh my blades using the Nani 12k, but this Flattening stone worked fine.

Just another option....
Like have the Norton version of this. The consensus seems to be the ,,,DMT. Any reason why these style stones are out of fashion?