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Yeah, that thread is what made me get the DMT D8X, definitely glad I went with the coarser one - makes lapping hard stones a cinch!

I had the same problem with scratches that you did!

I use a DMT D8X to lap, and it leaves pretty bad scratches on hones. So, what I do is use my Chinese 12k as a "smoothing" stone on the hones...