I was smoothing the bottom of an old plane and as I stroked it on the Norton paper on my granite plate I started looking at my lathe thinking about the banjo being hard to move at times. I took the banjo apart and honed the bottom of the casting. Started at 100 grit and worked through to 400 grit. Used the Dremel to take off the sharp edges. Waxed the new surface and reinstalled on the lathe. Amazing difference. I'm going to hone the bottom of the tailstock next and then thinking about turning the granite over and running it back and forth on the ways.