Flattening plates

[GuitardoctorW7]

I'm really sorry to bring up the S word but I have a confusion that I'm hoping someone could help me with please?
I'm finally comfortable S'ing my planes and chisels, I won't say exactly how as the howls of derision may go on for weeks. Suffice to say it involves some Shapton ceramic plates, and very good they seem too (to me). However there is talk of a 'flattening plate' which I get for wet stones but do I need one for these? If the general consensus is yes, I'll bite the bullet but the Shapton one is £225!!!!!!
Please play nicely......

 

[Jacob]

I'm really sorry to bring up the S word but I have a confusion that I'm hoping someone could help me with please?
I'm finally comfortable S'ing my planes and chisels, I won't say exactly how as the howls of derision may go on for weeks. Suffice to say it involves some Shapton ceramic plates, and very good they seem too (to me). However there is talk of a 'flattening plate' which I get for wet stones but do I need one for these? If the general consensus is yes, I'll bite the bullet but the Shapton one is £225!!!!!!
Please play nicely......

Modern sharpening is a massive money making exercise for the suppliers.
Trad sharpening could cost less than £100 for life. And is faster and easier.
Just came up this morning: https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/threads/good-description-of-how-a-handplane-works.147420/#post-1758226

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I'm really sorry to bring up the S word but I have a confusion that I'm hoping someone could help me with please?
I'm finally comfortable S'ing my planes and chisels, I won't say exactly how as the howls of derision may go on for weeks. Suffice to say it involves some Shapton ceramic plates, and very good they seem too (to me). However there is talk of a 'flattening plate' which I get for wet stones but do I need one for these? If the general consensus is yes, I'll bite the bullet but the Shapton one is £225!!!!!!
Please play nicely......

W(h)et stones? Oil or water?

 

[JSW]

Modern sharpening is a massive money making exercise for the suppliers.

W(h)et stones? Oil or water?

And . . . we're off!

 

[GuitardoctorW7]

And . . . we're off!

I did say play nicely, wet as in water I guess, not as in whet which by dictionary definition is to hone

 

[--Tom--]

You don’t need the shapton - sandpaper on something flat works in a pinch. In Japan most people I saw were using an atoma plate - £40 in Japan a bit more here

 

[GuitardoctorW7]

You don’t need the shapton - sandpaper on something flat works in a pinch. In Japan most people I saw were using an atoma plate - £40 in Japan a bit more here

thank you

 

[Phil Pascoe]

You still hone on a water stone. If you use water stones carefully (as with oilstones) they don't get badly hollow in the first place. If they do flatten them on anything harder - I do mine (a couple of times in forty years) on a coping stone on the garden wall.

 

[GuitardoctorW7]

You still hone on a water stone. If you use water stones carefully (as with oilstones) they don't get get badly hollow in the first place. If they do flatten them on anything harder - I do mine (a couple of times in forty years) on a coping stone on the garden wall.

Yes apologies and thank you for your sage advice

 

[Fitzroy]

I think you got your answer with minimal collateral damage! Quick change the title and run away before it grows arms and legs.

 

[Sideways]

Offcut of thick flat glass from the local glass shop, or a bit of granite kitchen top, or a piece of ground flat steel gauge plate - any of those, used with a sheet of wet n dry paper on top will do.

 

[pgrbff]

You don’t need the shapton - sandpaper on something flat works in a pinch. In Japan most people I saw were using an atoma plate - £40 in Japan a bit more here

You can order direct from Amazon jp, I do.

 

[Sean Hellman]

Atoma 120 grit diamond stone works well and does not stick to the whetstones. Usedone for years now, also use it as a sharpening stone, I think I bought it from workshop heaven.

 

[GuitardoctorW7]

You can order direct from Amazon jp, I do.

Arrives Thursday!

 

[GuitardoctorW7]

Thanks everyone, much appreciated