Sharp PebblePremium Whetstone Knife Sharpening Stone 2 Side Grit 1000/6000 Waterstone- Whetstone Knife Sharpener- NonSlip Bamboo Base & Angle Guide

I have several Shun knives that I had been sending to the company for sharpening and then had to wait a couple weeks before I would get them back so was without my knives for to long. I decided to buy this stone based on the reviews and searches for the best stones. It is great. Easy to use and I am able to keep my knives nice and Sharp. It does take some practice to get the correct angles and learn the correct way to sharpen but the videos are very helpful(we practiced on some cheap knives first😁)

Effectiveness:Best Sharpening stone I've found in recent time all my knives razor sharpQuality:The quality is good so far the stone not rubbing downDon't need to sharpen my knife that often since I've been using itValue for money:It came with a wooden case to keep the stone in, so I didn't have to build a case or buy oneSo good value for money

This is my first whetstone. All the foodie friends I have looked down on me because I'd sharpen my nice knives with a pocket sharpener from my camp kit. Blasphemer! They'd shout and ostracize me with scarlet 'A' on my chest until I got this whetstone. Apparently if you want to save friendships with people in the food industry, you have to get one of these. For the money, I think this was a great deal to save my social life.Now that I've sharpened all my knives with it, I can legitimately say it's easier than it looks. I didn't quite figure out the edge guide, maybe it's in the PDF that the seller sent me (more about that in a second), but I managed to get a great edge on my kitchen knives. Having been forced... ahem, voluntarily chose to watch videos about how to sharpen a knife, I was worried about slippage. I put this entire contraption on a kitchen towel at first, but discovered the base works just fine for me. No slipping and sliding. Just smooth grinding and polishing. I couldn't be happier with the stone and I have my foodie friends back now.The reason for a one star drop? This seller is among the group of sellers who like to email you upon receiving the product and ask for a review. I hadn't even removed it from the box before I started getting them. It's always guised under good intentions: "We just want to make sure everything is okay." The reality: it's just bad customer service because they are contacting me for their purposes, not mine. I'll keep saying it, I bought your product. I didn't invite you into my home to check on it. If I have an issue, I'll get a hold of you. I don't think a fair and honest review comes from simply unboxing the product. I usually hold off reviewing until I've used it or feel satisfied with it. I don't like writing bad reviews about anything. Because my email is swamped with requests from companies to review, on principle, I'm knocking off one star from any good review as well as telling all customers buying this product, be prepared to receive emails if you buy it. That I feel is an honest and fair review of the product and service.

So, before beginning this review, I think it's important to note that this stone is a standard item that is sold by a different company and simply branded with "sharp pebble" branding. If you know the right thing to search for on amazon ("sharpening stone knife non-slip base angle guide 1000/6000"), you will find at least 20 more listings selling exactly the same product for a variety of prices, nearly all of them less than this one, which has a higher price because of the fact that it is well-marketed and shows up higher in the search. If you are interested in this stone, it's probably a better bet to get the exact same thing for cheaper, since you can. That being said, I would recommend getting one that comes with the angle guide, which we'll go into more detail on later in the review.Ok with that disclaimer out of the way, this is a really excellent sharpening stone. The included angle guide is a game changer -- by far the most difficult part about sharpening knives is keeping the angle consistent, and this little thing makes it dead simple. I got one of these for my mom, who had never sharpened a knife in her life. After spending about 5 minutes with it, she was up and running.We also had a pretty good test bed for it -- since she had never sharpened a knife before, her knives were so dull that you couldn't injure yourself with one if you tried. They are literally unable to cut through a tomato's skin, even after vigorously sawing back and forth - you'd have to pierce it with the point first. We took one of these completely dull knives and worked it with this stone for probably 45 minutes and while it takes longer than that to get a knife from 100% dull to razor sharp, the difference was abundantly clear to everyone. It was once again an actual knife that could cut vegetables with ease.If you are not familiar with knife sharpening, this is a perfect intro because of the angle guide, and whetstones are much much more effective than stand sharpeners, so this is what you should get. If you are on the fence about whether you need to sharpen your knives at all, you do. Get one of these and it will make cooking much easier and honestly much safer, since the chances of a knife slipping off something you're trying to cut and into your fingers is much lower when the knife is sharp enough that it bites instead of slipping.Ah one more thing - the package does not include instructions on how to use the angle guide so I will add them here. Take the tip of the knife and slide it into the end of the angle guide, then use the ceramic rails to slide the angle guide all the way on to the body of the knife, so the tip protrudes from the other end. Now, within the guide there is some play - if you place the knife/guide on the stone and flex the handle, looking at it from the side, you will see that the knife can rest either against the top or bottom of the plastic inside the guide. I would recommend keeping it resting against the bottom. The *only* way you can mess up is not holding the angle consistently when sharpening, so make sure to keep an eye on this. As you hold the handle, make sure you are putting pressure on it in such a way that the knife stays flat against the bottom of the inside of the angle guide. Beyond that, just go for it, moving the knife back and forth across the stone. You can look up whetstone tutorials on youtube for the rest.One more thing. As you sharpen a knife on a stone, both the knife and the stone are having their surfaces ground away. This means that, over time, the surface of your whetstone will go from being flat, to being uneven. It is super important, however, that your whetstone surface is perfectly flat in order to accurately sharpen a knife. So if you are planning on keeping your knives sharp long term, you will also need what's called a "flattening stone." My research has indicated that using a diamond plate for this will yield best results, however, there are plenty of other types of flattening stones on amazon with good reviews that cost less than a diamond plate, so if you want to experiment, go for it. In fact, there is another listing that sells this same stone with a "flattening stone" as well, for less than the price of this item: Professional Knife Sharpening Stone - Two Grit 1000/6000 Whetstone - Kitchen Knife, Chef Knife & Tool Shaping System - Kit Includes Non-Slip Bamboo Base, Angle Guide, Flattening Stone and Instructions.The bad news is that there are a lot of different flattening stones at a lot of different price ranges. The good news is that you can experiment -- it's quite easy to check whether your stone is actually perfectly flat -- just take any other perfectly straight surface (edge of a piece of paper, ruler, level, any type of construction square, etc), crouch down so your eyes are even with the level of the stone, and move the straight edge across the surface, looking for any gaps. To be super precise, put a light behind it, so you will see the light coming through any gaps.Oook that's it for this mega-review, hope this was helpful!

You want an easy, a fast and beautiful sharpening device?!? This stone is the best. I've used my stone on all my HexClad knives and I can't tell you just how sharp they turn out, and let me tell you, I've spent hundreds of dollars on knife sharpening devices. This is the best!!