Thread: Hot Diggity Dog I did it

Originally Posted by currentman

I would not recommned using the norton lapping stone on anything but the nortons, I think its way too course for naturals, and some naturals like the chinese stone will chew it up. for lapping my go to tool is a DMT 8C


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Got it. Thanks.

Good place to get the DMTs?

Those are the steel plates/ diamond hones, right? I take it those need lapping? Sorry...dumb ?

Why doesn't the lapping stone ever need lapping? Too low of grit and everythign that touches it is higher grit? So, nothing ever 'eats' it away?

Originally Posted by rickboone

Good place to get the DMTs?

Those are the steel plates/ diamond hones, right? I take it those need lapping? Sorry...dumb ?

Why doesn't the lapping stone ever need lapping? Too low of grit and everythign that touches it is higher grit? So, nothing ever 'eats' it away?

Try either Woodcraft or SRD. This is timely as I just ordered one myself yesterday! And no, I've never heard of a lapping stone needing lapping, at least not the DMT continuous diamond plates. But it is possible to eventually wear on out. Others can chime in with that specific info.

Good job! You can see now why this whole honing thang is so addictive..! Just wait until you start getting into other natural stones like Eschers and the Japanese Naturals lol..!

I got my 325 grit DMT from SRD and I use it to lap all my stones. It also doubles as a major edge repairer in the event that I need to get rid of any chips.

They are made of steel and have a bonded diamond coating so they dont need lapping. For occasional lapping and use on razors it'd take a pretty long while to wear one out I'd think..! If you were using one to sharpen chisels or plane blades you'd wear it out much faster, but they are pretty darn durable.

Just dont do what I did with my 16k Shapton and drop the hone while you're lapping it. The DMT is heavy and it smashed the glass on the Shapton.. Thats one mistake I wont make again..! Now I rest the DMT in the bottom of the sink and rub the hone back and forth on top of it.

Good luck and keep us posted!

So here's what I did:


Took Genco. Honed it from dull using the unicot method. Test shaved. It was...not good. So I went and touched it up on the coticule and it was passing every test left and right. Went to shave...not so good. Used Nortons 4/8 pyramid to hone. Went through all that then used coti for touch up. Started with slight slurry, then plain water.

• When using the Nortons pyramid and you find it is not enough...where do you go back to? Just keep going on the 8K in most cases?

• Touching up on the coti, was slight slurry too abrasive perhaps?

Everything I've done (even finishing on pastes) it gets sharp in the sense that is passes tests. But, when I shave, it pulls. It practially melts away my leg hairs and pops hairs mid air really well.


It's evident to me the only true way to know is to lather up and shave. BTW, this edge looked great under the microscope too!


Take it one step further. I had 2 other razors. One (Wapi) last time I used it pulled ever so slightly. The other didn't pull and didn't have any problems.


Well, number 2 didn't slice through the leg hair like the very first Genco did. So a quick one or two swipes on the coti, then to pastes strops and voila. Slices through hairs on my leg like a hot knife in margarine. Onto the Wapi. Same thing. Puts all the others to shame on how efforlessly it glides through cutting hair.


But...on the test shave....they all are pulling. So, apparently I've messed up two that were fine (well, one at least Wapi was pulling a tad). They don't have the smoothness they once had.


I threw out a bunch of things and am not really sure where to start to ask help because it is so much. I did prove to myself that the tests are pretty much worthless. At least to me. TPT was used along the way with all of them too.