If necessary use a lubricant to your stone to make the sharpening process easier.
Using diamond stone on ceramic stone.
Resurfacing and flatting a spyderco ultra fine ceramic sharpening stone with a dmt coarse diamond stone.
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Diamond plates can serve many purposes including sharpening steel tools and for maintaining the flatness of man made waterstones which can become grooved or hollowed in use.
If you are experienced in using them then they will continue to be serviceable.
They are easier to use than a bench stone but not as easy as ceramic rods.
Use on stainless steel copper aluminum alloys silicon magnetic materials and plastics and precious metals such as gold silver and platinum.
Take the blade and start with the coarse side or medium side of the stone depending on which types of sharpening you want.
Any oil left on the diamond stone can transfer to the water stone and water stones and oil do not mix.
Truing flattening a stone whose shape has been changed as it wears away is widely considered essential to the sharpening process but some hand sharpening techniques.
In conclusion butcher s steels are certainly serviceable.
Clean them with a degreaser or a detergent if necessary.
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