King 47506 1000/6000 Combination Grit Waterstone

Pricey but worth it. Japanese made with all labelling and text in Japanese. Using for nearly 2 years, resulting in very sharp knives. This requires some degree of skill, so watch some YouTube videos before sinking your money - that way you know if you want to go down this path. A dressing stone should have been added in the pack, but the end result is good enough to give 5 stars. I got a dressing stone seperately and it was worth it. Wear on the brown 1000 grit side is slower than anticipated, which is good, as it means this will last longer. Dressing stone is really useful on the fine 6000grit side. I have found for best results a) always pull the blade b) if the stone seems to dry out after blade has run, a few drops is good c) soak the entire stone in water for at least 30 minutes before use (bubbles will stop) d) try and avoid hard water for soaking / sharpening activity. This is to extend life of the stone. I use drinking water that I get out of the filter. e) make sure your blades are extra clean with no residue of any kind. Just need blade steel, water and this stone. Good luck!

Product is good and genuine. Though real skill is involved in sharpening knife, i did manage to sharpen it to a great extent in first attempt. Product quality helped. The polishing side of the stone is also really good. Gives a mirror finish to the blade. Though one has to use google lens to translate the text written and know how to use it. Else one can watch video on youtube. Would help immensely a lot if an angle holder is provided with it.

Best budget whet stone out there. 1000 grit grinding and 6000 grit polishing stones that are made in Japan. Comes with a plastic some holder which is also anti-slip. Very nice touch. You don't need a separate stone holder to use it. Watch some YouTube tutorials on how to use it before using it.

A little Crack in it while receiving this material..

This is a very good product in this price point. I am using this product, Knife sharpening so much easy.

1000 grit is amazing and the 6000 gives ones blade a beautiful sheen. Fantastic.

Good product

If you know whetstones and the knife steel and edge then this stone is superb. Just keep it soaked in water for around 30 mins to an hour and then start working, wetting the stone from time to time to ease the grinding and remove the slurry. Using a wheat stone requires knowledge and practice around knife steel, the blade edge, the grind and the stone. If you are not careful and over do or under do you will ruin the knife edge and the stone at the same time. And also one has to remember that whet stones are softer than aluminium oxide based oil stones. Hence keep it well. But whet stones although take time they are much precise and beautiful to sort out rough edges, put on razor sharp edge back. However the quality of Kings stones seems to have fallen and may be because they are now manufactured in China. Otherwise even few years back these Japanese King Stones were real beauty and great tool to work with. But this quality difference is so fine that still the Kings Whet stone rocks. THANKS