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Ah yes the craftsmen site. Yes they have a very good deal on DMT plates.
The reason I ordered from howard was that caftsmen didn't ship to europe.

I bought mine from howard
www.theperfectedge.com

I think it was something like 55$.

AFTER I got it I found that the local hardware store also carries them. I buy all my tools in that shop...

Something like that yes. 10 hours of heavy grinding on a yellow coticule with slurry. It was 14 or 15 hours in total, but 5 hours were spent on a very coarse stone that didn't cut worth jack.
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Even if you go all natural, it might be worthwhile to have a DMT 8C for flattening and maintaining your stones.

These days I lap my stones pretty much before each use (or after each use :)) which ...