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David, thanks for the response, but I’ve been using the abrasive paper method for years and find it rather expensive. Also, it’s not as fast as the XX-Coarse diamond plate. And I think that the cost will — over the next several years — be less for the diamond plate.
And, if you had seen how much of a difference there was between the two diamond faces on the EZE-Lap, you’d understand. The first side was actually counter-productive. The sole was farther out of flat after I used the first stone than when I started.
The 2/1000″ tolerance wouldn’t be fatal for sharpening the cutting edges of planes and chisels or in “flattening” their backs, but it just won’t do for the soles of planes. When we’re producing shavings of 1/1000″, a plane with a curvature of 1/1000″ per 4″ is just not sufferable.
I’m glad that I bought the more expensive, but more accurate, DMT plates.
I love the quote from the great Scottish geologist, Sir Archibald Geikie, “In the first place I would put accuracy.”
Perhaps I have an excessive zeal for accuracy, but that’s the way I was built.
Harvey
Frank, that is exactly how I feel. Fresh air!
One of the “woodworking” magazines arrived in the mail today, and it’s nothing but a collection of ads for power tools and ads for power tools that are disguised as woodworking articles. It all feels so foreign now.
Thanks for the welcome.
Harvey
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