Atoma Diamond Plate
The micron equivalents are 100 45 and 15 respectively the plates are generously sized at 3 x 8 1 4 so they ll easily handle your largest plane blades.
Atoma diamond plate. Close caption 60k8234 1200x 15µ atoma diamond plate fullscreen caption close caption 60k8232 400x 45µ atoma diamond plate. 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. 65 for a single pad is extremely expensive. It s a pad with no plate.
But 65 is about the right price for an atoma plate. Atoma diamond plates come in three grits. The quality and durability of these atoma plates are of the highest we. Shame on me for not reading the description extremely carefully or looking at the reviews before purchasing this.
Replace the surface of your original atoma diamond plate. The adhesive is already supplied on the back of the sheet. Atoma plates are great for flattening whetstones. It flattens very quickly faster than the shapton diamond lapping plate and has shown no sign of wearing.
Atoma diamond sheets only are available in all four grits. Tsuboman atoma diamond sharpening plates diamond stone diamond plate diamond sharpener are products of tsuboman a superb japanese manufacturer with very refined products. This diamond covered sheet of steel is then mounted to a 10mm 3 8 thick piece of precision flattened aluminum. And while the atoma plates last quite well the diamond coated sheets are replaceable.
210mm x 75mm 8 1 4 x 2 7 8 do s. The problem with this item is that its not a plate. The atoma plates work really well for lapping stones and doing initial bevel setting as well as repair work on your knives. The diamonds are mounted to a piece of stainless steel that is 1mm thick 210mm 8 1 4 long and 75mm 2 13 16 wide the diamond coated steel can then be mounted on the aluminum base plate from an atoma diamond plate.
The atoma is a very high quality stone. The critical quality indicator to look for in a diamond stone is monocrystalline diamonds each piece of grit is a single solid diamond they are more expensive to produce but much more durable than polycrystalline diamonds. The atoma plates we have inspected have all been remarkably flat. 140 for fast material removal 400 for creating a primary bevel and 1200 for final honing.
The atoma plate with handle gives you the ability to really control your movements with precision and due to the diamonds on their plates being arranged in dot pattern as opposed to a continuous surface you ll find it won t catch on stones when you re lapping much if at all.