Arkansas stone lapping! Vid 2 Very important. 

sawedoffkiller no sir two different animals.

Mike Betts yes I know

Rafael Gelpi i do everything at my desk in my bedroom lol. and that small stone is a pocket diamond hone. the stone was already level. just removing high spots and smoothing. yes you can use another ark to lap. not to flatten. but if you do, you must be careful that the surface don't become glazed. he purpose of lapping is to increase or decrease surface grit. if you want more bite and a slightly coarser finish, then you would use a lower grit. if you are going for a finer finish then lap with a finer grit. just like sanding a piece of wood. ultimately you are changing he surface grit of the stone. this is more used with finishing stones. my soft arks usually get 6-9 hundred grit. my blacks and translucents get 2.5k or higher grit. now you can lap a soft ark to a higher grit if you like it will perform quite well. but it would just be silly to lap a hard ark to a lower grit. defeats the purpose. very good question. i will do a video on this. 👍

No problem

Steven Trosiek Thnk you. I do lots of different things to fix stones. I’ll eventually show them all

They are capable of much more than simple steels. And far surpass any other abrasive available.

ThinkFaster66 I don’t understand why people don’t get this video. If you will go back and listen to what I say I’m not lapping it. And sic works alright but not well. I use 3m wet dry sand paper. Depending on the stone depends on what I go to in grit. And it don’t matter if your sharpening razors or knives stones need flattening and lapping. It’s all about the performance

Rough Rooster Knife Sharpening I'll rewatch and try to pay a bit more attention. It's very smooth and flat already so I don't think I'll have to do much more. I appreciate the tips and all the videos. Happy new year. Asa

UreaSmith yea but I like doing it. And what I done there will last years.

I bought some nice looking oil stones at flea markets. Gonna start experimenting with them.

Waterstones are hands down better, faster than anything else. Diamond is good for flattening the natural stones. I like the Shaptons 1000-8000. Shapton has a cast iron plate you use powdered grit on and it works VERY FAST, but diamond 400 grit Atoma is lightyears better and cleNer. DMT not even close to as good as atoma.

@@missionron wrong all the way around lol

Still trolling at 4 in the morning? What a looser. I'm gonna go head and block you. Have fun commenting now. 😂

River6Actual use the same one. that was just convenient here lol

Jay Solomon I have many videos showing this. I do use sic powder occasionally but not much. I take my stones way past 2k

Thank Keep up the great work love your videos

Jay Solomon well thank you. I appreciate that

Jacob Taylor i would because the edge on a straight razor is so delicate. some wet dry automotive 3m sandpaper wet will do. 1k.1.5k 2k.2.5k will.work. less for coarser stones higher for finer stones

What grit is the diamond?

Boss_Hoss _Cigars I appreciate it man. You may not need a plate. What stones are u working on and what are you trying to do?

I am just now seeing this comment. Without knowing what it is I can't make a good recommendation. But a black is always good to have and use

Awesome!

I got mine at lowes its a Smith's. They are getting hard to find tho. Good luck

www.amazon.com/EZE-LAP-26F-Diamond-Pocket-Sheath/dp/B0001WP1WO/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1545997896&sr=8-4&keywords=pocket+diamond+stone

They are very nice!

David Gaylord i dont think you realize how hard these stones are. i know im not because it takes forever to flatten one. im not using much pressure doing this

David Gaylord also this isnt a full lap this was just a surface touch up.

Hey man just now seeing this. And it's southerntrader124@gmail.com

Yes but you need to go quite a bit finer

Why would I consider this video a half lapping? Did the title say that?

@@roughroosterknifesharpenin5531 It's a pun! A play on words. Similar or the same word used in multiple ways that are incompatible. Nothing but a pun.

I use dawn and water on my arks. I've got a ton of videos on here for sharpening

No sir

David Gaylord ehh i dont like doing that

That's not what I'm was doing there. If you would read the title and listen to what I'm doing you wouldn't have said that. Of course you can't flatten a stone like that lol

Anyone there?

Swedish Holmberg alright, so there is absolutely nothing at all you can tell me or teach me about stone maintenance or sharpening. Apparently you have not watched many of my videos. I flatten my stones as needed. This one was previously flattened using sic powder hence the thinness of this stone combo. This process I use is the beginning of lapping the stone. And the pencil this is all wrong. When you flatten a stone with sic and glass and it will pick up you’re glass sheet then it’s flat. Just because your grid is gone don’t mean it’s flat. Also a hard Arkansas will destroy a diamond plate. Sic will cut way faster.

"when all the pencil is remived, its perfectly flat." Guess again. If you use planes and chisels, you probably have some straight edges and squares. Use one you trust to check the surface of the stone after "flattening" it with the Atoma. Tell us what you find.

Mildy Productive actually I have a straight edge for decking blocks and testing flatness on cylinder heads. That is what I have used. When the graphite is gone DOES NOT prove the stone is perfectly flat. The slurry and water can remove the graphite when the stone nears flat. And again as I’ve said a hundred times. A hard ark will ruin any diamond plate you put it on. I’ve been doing this for years man. Sorry to tell you but you are incorrect.

Mildy Productive also if you knew anything about my channel you would see I have not sharpened any planes or chisels.

@@roughroosterknifesharpenin5531 I was replying to Swedish. Anyhow, since you're here, what you did in this video? Technically, none of it was lapping. You are grinding/filing the stone. And what you're doing doesn't make the stone flat. When you run the plate over the stone with the plate all the way across the stone, you are slightly convexing the surface side to side. Which is good, because a perfectly flat ark stone is pretty useless for sharpening.