Nice post Kristoffer. I received the same advice from "Randy" (sp???) a week or so ago about a 12k Chinese stone. He also said that I could use dry sandpaper but that he preferred wet. Because I do not have a DMT-8 he told me to use coarse sandpaper for lapping. He mentioned that I should gauge the stone with a 400 grit and sand away with 80 or 120 until flat after making markings on the stone with a pencil. Then to finish the stone I should do 2 passes on 120|220|320|500|800|1000. I did get my Chinese 12k from christmas but I have been to lazy to work on it yet :-( Randy if you read this, please correct me if I misquoted you here ;-).

Al raz.