Hello,
I would like to hear your opinion on gluing two 10mm acrylic plates together to be used as a substrate form lapping film honing. The reason for doing so is because it is too much of a hassle for me to make a composite substrate. I live in a small apartment in the centre of a town and I have no tools nor space. Thickest acrylic on aliexpress seem to be 10mm, so I had a thought about cutting such a plate in half, gluing the halfes together to create a 20mm acrylic plate and hone on that.
I am burning through my naniwa SS 1k super fast since it is constantly loading up with swarf and I need to clean it a lot while doing heavy work on a razor. I'm down to the last few milimeters on that stone. I will soon need another bevel setter and I just thought about switching to films altogether. Can I expect the films to last a few thousand passes? Learning to hone seems to require them... Especially on Gold Dollars and cheap vintages.
I could just use the 600 side on my honing plate (some sort of metal honing stone, cheap, not sure it's a diamond plate, recommended by H Brad). But taking away those scratches is a lot of work on the next stone, and my SS 3K would go down the drain as well.
I would like to hear your opinion on gluing two 10mm acrylic plates together to be used as a substrate form lapping film honing. The reason for doing so is because it is too much of a hassle for me to make a composite substrate. I live in a small apartment in the centre of a town and I have no tools nor space. Thickest acrylic on aliexpress seem to be 10mm, so I had a thought about cutting such a plate in half, gluing the halfes together to create a 20mm acrylic plate and hone on that.
I am burning through my naniwa SS 1k super fast since it is constantly loading up with swarf and I need to clean it a lot while doing heavy work on a razor. I'm down to the last few milimeters on that stone. I will soon need another bevel setter and I just thought about switching to films altogether. Can I expect the films to last a few thousand passes? Learning to hone seems to require them... Especially on Gold Dollars and cheap vintages.
I could just use the 600 side on my honing plate (some sort of metal honing stone, cheap, not sure it's a diamond plate, recommended by H Brad). But taking away those scratches is a lot of work on the next stone, and my SS 3K would go down the drain as well.