Shrubby":2327j03f said:(My dmt have all retired due to baldness and unflatness)
Matt
Interesting. I'd send them back to DMT, as they guarantee the flatness. I can't see the steel/plastic would have warped or bent (absent abuse) so the age shouldn't be an issue.
They also have an open ended guarantee on quality generally, so I'd complain about the baldness too!
If you can't be bothered, I'll give you a fiver each inc p&p, and test their customer service myself, as I reckon they would come through.
For what it is worth, I reckon you would have to abuse a DMT to get it to go bald (at all), unless it is defective in the first place, which is a good reason for seeking a refund in my book. That might be overconfidence from having a good set of stones, I suppose.
I'm not so sure about the cheaper poly-crystalline stones, for which it sounds (if my sketchy understanding hold up) as if baldness would be easier to achieve by the crystals shearing off, without having to literally rip all the stones out of the nickel matrix. I mean, those nickel matrices last pretty well on angle grinder and tile saw blades, where they get a much, much, much harder time than anyone would give a bench stone.