Mono crystaline vs Poly crystaline Diamond stones?

[Charles McKinley]

Hi All,

What are the pros and cons of the two different types of diamond sharpeners? The Norton uses the monocrystaline diamonds. The DMT uses the poly crystaline diamonds.

Thanks

[Michael Campbell]

Hi All,

What are the pros and cons of the two different types of diamond sharpeners? The Norton uses the monocrystaline diamonds. The DMT uses the poly crystaline diamonds.

Thanks

As luck would have it I just read about this in Lee's Sharpening book (a must buy, if you don't already have it.)

Mono's are more expensive (he says) by about double, and last about twice as long on a stone.

Lee likes the mono much better.

[Charles McKinley]

Thanks Michael,

I knew I had read the differences somewhere.

[rarebear]

Hi,
poly crystaline diamonds are Cubic Zerconiums
and Mono I think is real industrial diamonds

I works for a short time in a shop that made all kind of stuff out diamonds (wheels, mounter wheel dressers Valve seats) and I am still not sure that the mono types are