Hi All,
I recently started using diamond stones in my sharpening process. I used to use sandpaper followed by ark, but now I use diamond then black ark and strop. Anyways on a couple of plane iron backs that I was trying to polish up, I noticed that my Irons are getting liquid locked to the stone, this happens on the 1200 grit stone. It makes flattening difficult because as I'm moving it back and forth the iron skids across the surface it that makes any sense. Basically it has spots it slides right across and others it wants to stop. I've attached a picture of a super thick (1/8" or so) single iron. It is locked to the stone, no external support. It happens on either side of the stone and with the last three irons I've used. I use glass cleaner as the liquid to float the swarf. Never happened on my Arks before. Is there any issue with this, or just a normal occurrence?

Thank you,
Michael
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