Thread: Taidea vs Shapton vs Norton etc

Originally Posted by SirStropalot

Yeah, I agree that it's a really good lapping plate. But it's $379.00. It is glass and you only get one "whoops" with it. I don't knock it's performance, just that there are other options that have come out since it's inception that are less expensive and IMHO do the job equally well.

Best Regards,

Howard

Wow, I don't remember how much I paid for mine but it was way less than that. Let me know if you ever want to thin your collection, that is, if you want to sell for way less than that!

Originally Posted by Utopian

Wow, I don't remember how much I paid for mine but it was way less than that. Let me know if you ever want to thin your collection, that is, if you want to sell for way less than that!

If I ever get that crazy desire to part with it........you'll be the first to know, promise!!

Cool!
I promise I'll give it a good home!

I think a Norton 4/8 is a really good choice because as Jimmy said so many people have one. Plus you get the 4 AND the 8...

Then there is the naniwa 3/8 I have nothing to compare them to but I have both as separate hones and they seem very nice. My logic with getting separate stones was that cost wise it was near identical and if I dropped one I would only lose one hone not two.

ed, do you have trouble dropping things? Get a big bar of alum and keep your fingers covered and think like Spiderman.

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

ed, do you have trouble dropping things? Get a big bar of alum and keep your fingers covered and think like Spiderman.

No richard I am just tight.

I just discovered LOOSE Silicon Carbide grit that can be put on a Granite Tile with some spritzed water with a drop of soap in it and used to lap a stone back to flat (figure 8 pattern working around the plate). Nothing was working for my hard arkansas oil stone and this got it done pretty quickly. I'll bet it'll work even faster for a waterstone. A bag of grit lasts a long time and is cheap ($5 on ebay).

Loose grit works great for Hard Naturals, but synthetics are much softer and you run the risk of imbedding grit in them.

Wet and Dry 320 grit is much better and a Diamond plate better yet and much quicker and easier.

A Quality diamond plate is about 50 bucks.

Originally Posted by 777funk

I just discovered LOOSE Silicon Carbide grit that can be put on a Granite Tile with some spritzed water with a drop of soap in it and used to lap a stone back to flat (figure 8 pattern working around the plate). Nothing was working for my hard arkansas oil stone and this got it done pretty quickly. I'll bet it'll work even faster for a waterstone. A bag of grit lasts a long time and is cheap ($5 on ebay).

Try your loose grit dry on the Ark.