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He-he... of course you could, as long as you made sure that the backside was clean. What's nice about the glass plate, or ceramic plate, is that is is dedicated to use with the films. If you use...

I agree. As I described in my post, several of the glass plates were basically ok and required very little lapping to flatness. A few however were really quite bad and required about a half hour of...

1. It is surprisingly easy to flatten a glass tile with a 3" x 8" DMT diamond plate. I've done it dry or with water, and it works well with either. I mark the glass tile with a permanent marker so...

Another really good source for lapping films is bestsharpeningstones.com. I don't know if they ship internationally, but you may want to ask.

Try garrettwade.com for lapping films. I don't know if they ship outside of the United States, but you should ask. I think just doing a google search for lapping films should turn up sources that...

The glass plates are not that thick. I bought four glass plates locally. They were ¼ inch thick, and measured 3 inches x 11 inches. I should have spelled out "four" to avoid the misread.

Thanks for the advice, Stefan. I've been reading up on lapping films (my thanks to Euclid440) and want to try them out myself, just for fun. I needed a very flat substrate, which is the reason why...

They're not that thick. I should have written it as "four ¼ inch thick plates". Not the way the post reads. I did price ½ inch plates, but they were $30 each. The ¼ inch plates were $8 each. Big...

I thought that float glass plate was reasonably flat. I was wrong. I picked up 4-¼ inch glass plates (3" x 11") from a local glass/mirror place and lapped them on my DMT lapping plate. All four...