220 & 500 Glass Stones

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

In Germany the combination Shapton Glass 500 & 2.000 for bevelsetting is highly regarded.
I don´t own a GS 500 nor 2k but a 1k, so I can´t really comment on that.

The jump o.5k, 2k 4k sounds pretty good to me though :)

I use a Shpton 500 glass stone when I have to re-set a bevel and for honing out small chips. For bigger chips I usually bread knife the blade and estabilsh a new bevel first with 3 layers of tape on the spine. Then I remove 2 layers of tape and continue on the 500 stone.
I have no experience with the 220 glass stone but I think the Shapton 500 glass hone works pretty fast.