Right now I am wishing I had one of those diamond plates, but I am not going to 
buy one. I stupidly dropped my prized large translucent white Arkansas stone on 
the concrete floor. it broke into 2 pieces. After I got the tears stopped, I stu
ck it back together with CA glue. But of course, the 2 surfaces are not fair. I 
will work them back to flat on my concrete block. And I will cry the entire time
. I bought that stone in 1976, and I have always cherished it. 

On Nov 19, 2012, at 8:55 PM, Mark Lovett Wells wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Mark Fortune  wrote:
>> What would be the best bit of kit for flattening bench stones;
> ...
>> >> was thinking of buying a diamond stone??? , any advice would be much appre
ciated.
> 
> One thing I like about this group is that you won't get many people
> telling you to buy stuff, especially not expensive stuff.
> 
> Last year at our local Lie-Nielsen event, I stood at the sharpening
> station, trying out their expensive sandpaper for grinding the primary
> bevel.  While I was doing that, people started asking questions.
> Maybe they thought  I knew something since I was standing behind the
> sharpening stand.
> 
> A guy came with an oil stone and said, "How can I flatten this stone?"
> Sitting right in front of me was one of those huge diamond stones
> like this:
> http://www.lie-nielsen.com/catalog.php?sku=DMT-DiaFlat
> I said, "Let's try that."  In a minute or less his stone was flat.
> 
> Clearly it works.  Is it worth the price?  That's your decision.
> 
> Of course you could also just take all your stones to a Lie-Nielsen
> event near you.  You could probably use the exact same diamond plate I
> did.  ;-)
> 
> Mark
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