Thread: Lapping Plates - Glass or Granite or somthing else?

Honestly I am pretty OCD about honing razors (I know hard to believe huh )

But honestly anything more than a DMT 325 or a Shapton DGLP or something along those lines is a bit of overkill..
The stones/hones just need to be clean and flat they don't have to be perfect, most of the razors aren't anyway

I am very hesitant about using anything that releases grit to lap with also, you have to be much more conscientious about cleaning your stone's surface to prevent embedding grit... This isn't a big problem in most finishers but it is on the lower grit stuff...

Just like much of what we do it becomes a trade off as to effort-vs-gain, but also they are your hones, so the final decision is ultimately yours...

I lap my hones with wet dry paper on a glass cutting board , I got at Walmart for less than $5 . It works fine for me . As some others have said , a hone doesn't need to be THAT flat . We're lapping hones , not telescope mirrors .