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Frankly, the DMT XXC is £119. That's pricey. And it seems, I'll have a deep scratch pattern on a a stone that should have no scratch pattern. I'm assuming that once I flatten the hones with the XXC,...

OK... I've got it now. It's the 120-grit DiaSharp Extra-Extra Course 8". If I've got "that much honing to do" then I'll hate 325-grit regular Course, right?

Is it still foolish to ask my I would...

I DO have a lot of lapping to do!! It's about to be a crazy month of dissertation writing and hone lapping.

I cant make heads or tails out of the DMT product line. What's the DMTXXC? And why is it...

$125 for a lapping plate! That's too rich for my blood. I havent picked up the DMT because it's £55!

But.... it seems like I've got a lot of lapping to do. I've got an Aloxite barber hone that...

It was an 80 grit plate? It must have been very uneven to require that low a grit.

It seems as though hones really are treated like pieces of wood. First you look for visible signs of uneven...

Oil? Really? That seems messy. What kind of oil?

I see that you're in Rochester. I spent a few months taking a brain beating at the U of R in the early 80's. Is Nick Tahoe's still serving Garbage...

That's damn fine wisdom. Thank you.



So: I won't be using oil; I won't be generating slurry; and may be forced to purchase an expensive 8" DMT plate just to lap my Charnley. I'm not sure that...

$300 is quite a bit more than I want to spend on anything except a genuine Pastrami sandwich, something I miss desperately since landing in London for a year-long academic beating, so it's safe to...

Your name is Sham, right?

Sham, I suspect you are correct, and that using paper might not be the most efficient use of my time. But until I do it, I won't appreciate the awesome stupidity of...

I got it from the guy at the place who had the things. He was very friendly and had picked it up the day before. Had I waited a couple of days, he said, "one of those crazy Americans would have...

I'd really rather not get a DMT. I prefer the romantic notion of using natural stones, and grabbing that soulless DMT each time I want to spend some quiet time with ancient rocks and 19th century...

I've read about people using a credit-card sized DMT325 as a slurry stone, and the first thought that leaps to mind is that the same DMT is used to lap hones, so isn't it reasonable to assume that...