Thread: norton- sandpaper lapping troubles...

Originally Posted by Basher052

Howard, how do you know when its completly level?

Ok, my name isn't Howard, but I can answer your question, simply make some pencil marks on the face of the hone you are flattening, I do a cross hatch pattern but any sort of squiggles will do, when all the pencil lines are gone, the hone is flat. I might redo the lines and do just a few back and forth motions to make sure the lines weren't removed by heavy slurry but that's about it.

I, and I know Howard does as well, when working on Coticules, won't worry about the extreme corners of a hone as they can sometimes drop off a bit. Flattening to the extreme corners on a hone with corners that droop just wastes a good deal of perfectly good stone that could be used before that last 1/2" of the corner is flat.

Regards

Christian

Oh sure, go the high tech route on me why dont ya?

That does make lots of sense. I saw myself with a compass and a micrometer.....