220 & 500 Glass Stones

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I had been doing my chip repair and bevel setting with DMTC, DMTF, and DMTEF plates for a while now. Was disappointed with the rough condition (big scratches) they leave above the bevel and the DMTEF simply wore out pretty fast so I was looking for a new 1000 grit workhorse. I have Shaptons 4K and up so thought I should would try some of their low grit stones.

220 and 500 Shapton arrived yesterday from SRD and I put them right to work last night on an ebay cheapie with a sizeable chip.

I'm impressed.

The 220 is way faster than I expected. Easily as fast as the DMT without the offensive high scratches. Then the 500 cleaned up the 220 scratches and I ended the low end work with my old faithful 1000 Norton and will use that til I get a 1K Shapton to fill in the void. I'll use DMT's for lapping only now.

Anyone else get these results?

Regards,
Marc