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Author:  archtop [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Norton Flattening Stone.... Avoid??
By now I've read almost everything I could get my hands on about using waterstones. I know one simple way of flattening them is on a flat surface with some 120, 220 w/d sandpaper. Thing is, I don't have any right now. I do have the flattening stone that came with my Norton kit though. I'm a little reluctant because I read an Amazon review that said it's hardly flat and no good. I know those reviews can be a bit inaccurate sometimes, but I don't want to make more mistakes than I already have recently! :) Should I stay away from the flattening stone?
-John
Author:  Michael Jin [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Norton Flattening Stone.... Avoid??
Dunno.. I've had no issues so far with my Norton flattening stone..
Author:  TonyFrancis [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 3:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Norton Flattening Stone.... Avoid??
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Author:  TonyKarol [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Norton Flattening Stone.... Avoid??
Not sure if the one Lee Valley sells is a Norton or not .. but I have one and so far it works great - took the valley out of the stone in no time ...
Author:  Chris Paulick [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:32 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Norton Flattening Stone.... Avoid??
I just find it as being odd that norton who puts out some good stones would have a flattening stone that didn't work??? idunno
Author:  Hesh [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:54 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Norton Flattening Stone.... Avoid??
I would give it a try since you already have it. Just make some pencil lines on the stone and see if your flattening stone is flat enough to work well.

John my friend I suspect from reading your threads that you are in tooling-up mode and if this is the case with all that you may be purchasing why not try the one that you have and see if the value/utility is there prior to considering anything else.
Author:  David R White [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:16 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Norton Flattening Stone.... Avoid??
I have one and it works fine. Of course I'm sure you'd do fine with sandpaper on glass, but then you'd own one less tool, and nobody wants that.
Author:  Chris Paulick [ Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:05 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Norton Flattening Stone.... Avoid??
I use Todd's method.
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