Thread: Lapping a barber hone on the cheap?

I have a Amarican I lapped with 1000 it works great no probs.

I lapped my 12K grit with a foot square of marble floor tile I bought for one dollar and some 400 grit sandpaper. I just went to Lowes, and explained to the floor tile guy what it was I was doing. He showed me a piece of 30 dollar marble floor tile that is perfectly flat, that had a wee little chip on the edge, so they could not sell it as floor tiling. He let me have it for a buck. I layed it on my kitchen counter, spread the 400 grit sandpaper on it, drew Xs' on my honning stone with a pencil, then gently rubed the honning stone in circles on the sand paper. Worked like a charm. Cost me all of 5 bucks