Thread: The C-Nat-athon

I think tyler meant 'tape', and I feel that if you use tape to hone it, use tape to hone it all the way.

Now, here is my setup, and I tried to get some decent pics of my CNat. I hope you can see the lines I was talking about. Reminds me a a dragons tongue stone I've seen somewhere.

I went ahead and lapped both sides (top side 'again') and finished the sides up to an 8k polish. I polished it with 1k, 4k and 8k stones to help and try to smooth it out, and I think it did amazing. It feels so much smoother now that I've done that. I can really tell the difference.

Here's some pics:





I included the last pic to show Tyler that my DMT has some rust on it also, put away wet in a sealed container and it rusted in those spots. Don't try and remove it, just make sure it is dry when you put it away or they will get worse. (I know, whoops!).

As you can see the red lines run thru the stone perfectly on both sides, almost exact.

Now that it is relapped i'm going to give it another try. Mine is pretty narrow so I have to do X's. Slurry came up pretty quick before, but I tried to raise a slurry after lapping this time, using my C12k slurry stone, and it didn't do anything!!! What do you think about using the 8k to put some slurry on it? I don't want to hit it with the DMT again as I think that was just roughing up the surface.

Opinions??

Thanks you lot!! Great thread..

Mike

Cripes, forgot to say what is what... Starting from the left: King 800, King 1000, Norton combo, C12k and the DMT 325..