Naniwa Superstone Sharpening Stone IN-2010 1000 Grit

Fine enough to put the final polished edge on any knife, even though they claim you need crazy fine stones like 8000 or 12000 or so... this will not take chips out of a blade, but with water can do some light cutting to put a beautiful edge on your favorite knife. It will not work without water. The stone is very soft, and breaks down and makes a fine slurry that actually does the cutting and polishing. That's what makes this one better than many of the others. It will not scratch or damage your blade. Be sure to keep it clean, since foreign material can damage your blade.

As advertised. I don't know a lot about sharpening but for most of us 1000 is as high as we need to go. Still I may get a 3000 or 6000 down the line but for now, I can sharpen a plane blade and take the hair off my arm with this stone.

Very thin and mounted on a base. It's a very hard splash and go so the thinness is probably not an issue. My issue with the stone is it loads up very quickly and must be cleaned often on a single sharpening session. It leaves a very shiny and sharp edge but with my Japanese Carbon Steel (#1 White Steel) knives it cuts slowly because of the loading.

The stone is really smooth for sharpening and is a great intermediate polishinig/sharpening stone. The stand works really well and it doesn't seem to slide around too much even on a wet counter top. I can feel the quality as I sharpen and I doesn't seem to require much effort to use. My only reason for not giving it five stars is the thinness of the stone. In the picture the stone appears to be thicker than what I received. So this leads me to believe that the stone will not last as long as I originally was thinking. With that said, I didn't see any obvious signs of excessive stone wear that would imply this stone will not last. I did however, purchase the naniwa chosera stones from a different site and they were much thicker and a great pleasure to work with. Shapton #220 is pretty nice as well for serious work.

Better than I expected. Using three stones for most of our kitchen cutlery. 1000, 5000, and 8000. I have put razor edges on some rather cheep knives but the edges on our harder steels (Rockwell 60 range) come out really nice. Tomatoes can be cut as thin ass paper and that is no joke.

It is smaller than it looks. You get 5 mm of stone. But the price is right and so is the quality. A must have for medium sharpening jobs. Polishes great.

I was in the market for entry level sharping stone, after doing some research I settled on this stone. It's great, I use the stone by splashing water on it and sharping, after the first use I got this yellow/beige stain on the stone. I didn't think much of it as it was stilling to the job. Until a friend saw my stone and asked that i should check it out. Is the yellow stain normal?

Cannot use this as shipped. The plastic base is not substantial and cannot be secured to allow for proper knife sharpening.