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I have no problem with anything you've said in this thread. This is a forum. It would be really boring if we all agreed on everything.

I see no point disagreeing over yet another matter of semantics. Touching a diamond plate to a hone for the intended purposes I listed above, expressly for those purposes and with no regard to the...

Lapping is done to make a hone flat. Refreshing is done to renew a hone surface to expose fresh honing material, to remove accumulated swarf, and/or to release some slurry.

Regular refreshing has...

The loose grits can serve a great purpose for lapping, but they are not of much use for refreshing a hone surface.




Okay, low to high by price...

1. I have heard that there are cheap...

Yeah, I should point out that a lot of this stuff depends on a matter of degrees. If someone is going to lap/refresh frequently, then the Norton can be a pain. If it is infrequent, then it can be...

There some basic problems with the Norton Flattening Hone.

A) It does not start out very flat, so before you use it to flatten anything you have to flatten it.

B) After you use it to flatten...

Two things about the Norton 220/1k...

The 220 is borderline useless. It is so sloppy soft that it is not very productive for razors.

The Norton 1k will work just fine as a bevel setter, but...