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Hi,
I realise this is an old thread, but as i’m having similar problems thought I would post.
My eze-lap plates are not very good now. I’ve bought multiple coarse plates thinking maybe I had abused them in some way, but all fairly quickly go full.
I have coarse, fine, extra fine in my sharpening station, and only the extra fine causes any Black to collect on the plate to show it’s cutting.
By contrast I have an extra extra fine DMT stone that cuts instantly and really well.
Now, by its nature it hasn’t had the use of the coarser stones, but I cuts just as well after 2 years as it did on day one.
I’m going to replace my eze lap coarse with a dmt one and see how I get on.
Before I replace any though, does anyone know how to test the eze-lap stones to see if they still have diamond left? I read something somewhere about testing with a glass but can’t find the article any more.
Thanks
Darren.