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That is all we can do. Dylan (holli4pirating) posted about his Chosera 1k cracking/crazing years ago. My 1k is sound as a dollar (as a dollar used to be) and anyway, Dylan's is still doing duty as a...

Well Mike, thanks for the explanation. So far the cracks/crazing don't appear to have a detrimental effect on the honing. Hope it remains no worse than cosmetic. :hmmm:

I don't think lapping had anything to do with the cracking. Not at all. As for living in FL. The stones have been in a climate controlled environment and have never soaked them more than 5 minutes....

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Bob, a picture is worth a thousand words. It is difficult to capture the extent of the cracking. Suffice to say that it covers the surface of the stones, sort of like photos of the Sahara...

I just wonder if the coarser grits on the plates might not suffer the same 'stripping' of diamonds & embedding in the surface of the 20k. Also irritated that there is nothing on anyone's website that...

Been thinking about this 1200 stripping diamonds on the 20k. Going by the unfortunate experience of Sham with his DMT 1200 (which Dia-Sharp did replace BTW) I was figuring that because of the...

+ 1. and I've had Nortons, Shaptons, Naniwa Superstones, and Choseras. Even DMTs aren't always flat.

Is it good for lapping Choseras and the like ? If it isn't good for lapping what the hell good is it ? I wouldn't use it to hone a razor ......... or a knife.

I did a google search and went to Chef's Knives, and then to Stuart's Japan Tools site. Not a word about there being any problem with lapping using the 1200 plate. I don't doubt Stuart said that in...

Is this just for the 20k, or for other stones as well ? :(


On the contrary, the Atoma 1200 goes through any stone like a hot knife through butter IME. I may have gotten lucky because I always...

What Oz said. You can buy 3 D8C DMTs for the price of one Atoma 1200, but if I knew then what I know now I'd have only bought the Atoma. It is in a class by itself. Once you have the plate they sell...

That 20k made me glad I went for the Atoma 1200. The Atoma is superior to the DMT Dia-Sharp, and the Shapton DGLP in my experience. What I did with my 20k was start out with the 325 (D8C) and did the...