Quote Originally Posted by bevansmw View Post
It was about 20 - 25 minutes or so each, I was lapping the right side the clear face of it and I was using a 1k shapton. I lapped four, so it took about 1 hr for two each time I lapped them.
Uhh... sorry, but that explanation did not clear things up for me.... There is a clear glass side and a white ceramic side to the Glass Shaptons... It is the white side that is the honing surface, the other "clear" side is only the glass base and you can see the identification marks through it as in the grit mesh and micron size.

If you were lapping the white side of the hone, I cannot help but think that if you spent that much time on one hone, you must have accidentally used the wrong DMT plate or there is something terribly wrong with your DMT such as virtually no diamond grit. For me it was a matter of a few minutes with a almost instant white slurry being developed as I lapped the hones. The Shapton 2000 grit took the longest, my Shapton 16000 grit took the least amount of time which is to be expected as the diamonds have better access to the binder as the finer hones have smaller sized grit.

Regards

Christian