Atoma Diamond Lapping Plate

It flattens very quickly faster than the shapton diamond lapping plate and has shown no sign of wearing.

Atoma diamond lapping plate.

Atoma diamond plates come in three grits. The quality and durability of these atoma plates are of the highest we. The 400x is suitable for fast lapping truing water stones or shaping a primary bevel. This particular coarse is a little more coarse than i usually need for sharpening purposes but i would imagine the higher coarse atoma stones will perform very well.

Atoma diamond plates are conveniently sized 210mm 8 1 4 long x 75mm 2 13 16 wide the atoma diamond plates are a great size with plenty of surface area for use as sharpening stones or as lapping plates for flattening other stones. Because the diamonds are arranged in a dot pattern rather than a continuous surface there is less tendency for them to stick to the stones when lapping. The 140x is for rapid material removal. The 1200x can be used for fine lapping or general sharpening and leaves a toothed edge on kitchen knives.

This construction makes the plates durable rust resistant and reliable for lapping. These plates are made of mono crystalline diamonds as the abrasive surface on stainless steel body made of 10mm think machined aluminium plate. Tsuboman atoma diamond sharpening plates diamond stone diamond plate diamond sharpener are products of tsuboman a superb japanese manufacturer with very refined products. It will lap sharpening stones with ease and in less than 1 minute it will flatten stones like shaptons or choseras.

The atoma plates work really well for lapping stones and doing initial bevel setting as well as repair work on your knives. It s not as fast as the 140 but doesn t put deep scratches like the 140 does. The atoma is a very high quality stone. 140 for fast material removal 400 for creating a primary bevel and 1200 for final honing.