Atoma 400 Lapping Plate. My pet peeve is with some woodworkers who complain their flattening stone/plate is junk because it's all much like the atoma 140 the 400 is very coarse. Since both are quite similar, you stress the atoma if you do that all the time. Technically, you don't want to sharpen with the.
75 x 210 x 12mm.
The atoma 400x diamond plate is the best, finest and most efficient lapping plate out there. My atoma diamond lapping plate review. Very useful #400 grit diamond stones for coarse sharpening and, crucially, for lapping and flattening your waterstones. The atoma 400 diamond plate is suitable for flattening stones as coarse as 400 up to 8000 grit. Some use this in progression with the 140 for stone flattening but i originally bought the 400 grit plate for lapping my shapton pro stones but it works very nicely on naturals as well. Technically, you don't want to sharpen with the. An adhesive layer of monocrystaline diamond chips is backed onto a 10mm thick block of aluminium giving a solid, stable and flat product. The shokunin atoma lapping plate is a solid block of precision machined aluminium, 210 x 75 x 10mm thick.