PalmRoyale
Senior Member
I received the stone at work today so I did some testing with my white steel #1 chisels and a PM-V11 and A2 plane blades. First the good things. The stone is very hard, very similar to a Shapton Pro 5000, and it's also very dense which is reflected by it's weight of 800 grams. I like hard and dense synthetic stones so for me this is a good thing. Unlike a Shapton Pro 5000 which is a dog to use this stone is very nice. Sharpening on it feels smooth and kind of creamy with a nice sense of very fine abrasion and it makes short work of everything I've thrown at it. It's fast, fast, fast! Feedback is very good which makes it easy to keep the angle consistent. Water management is top notch as well. It's a splash and go stone (it does absorb a tiny bit of water) and as long as you keep it wet there's no problem with glazing of the stone, not even with the back of a #4 plane blade. So on to the bad stuff. There's isn't any. This has instantly become my favourite synthetic stone, it's that good. It's everything I want the pro 5000 to be and then some. Hard, dense, smooth, creamy, fast... what's not to like about this stone?