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Perhaps you were starting from a different place. I now have five stones which are so smooth a couple of them are glassy, with no errant scratches. And a piece of #80 wet and dry which has plenty of...

I did the really heavy work on a concrete slab, then #80 wet and dry on the granite worktop and/or a #250 stone, then wet and dry to finish them, I have used one sheet each of #80, #250, #600 and...

I've been mulling this over, and I'm wondering how best to get the ball rolling. As a start, I've been lapping one side of the stones with 600 wet and dry, and the other side with 1000. Where there...

Thank you, good advice!

Yes, that was from a 10k, though it was really just a brief trial to check the lay of the land rather than a proper experiment. I also have a bunch of identical razors to experiment with, as well as...

Many thanks!

I have burnished one stone in the meantime, with the back of a kitchen knife, possibly not ideal but the best I have to hand. In any case, it has gone from not being as fine as my 10k...

Many thanks. In my preliminary experiments both with lapping and honing, I have found that dish soap stops the hone catching and makes everything much smoother. I did not know it had an effect on the...

So, where are we up to... I found I had to take several millimetres off some of the Chinese stones, to get past imperfections etc, so for the rough work I used a concrete paving slab. Worked ok to...

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. It seems nearly everyone is of the same opinion, and this reply by Euclid440 says everything pretty concisely.

This is my plan: inexpensive diamond plate for...

Season's greetings, I trust everyone had a good Christmas!

I am looking at lapping plates, and though I know the DMT plates are standard, they are also pricy. I guess others could work, right? Has...