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Here a vid that compares the "new" Cerax 3k to the Ouka 3k, to the Debado 4k etc.

Been collecting and playing with stones for years and being a grass is greener type, my line up rotates but every time I come back to the Kings, life is good, very very good. Am currently playing with the King KD 1K / King 8K Gold for hybrids and for me, this is pretty much a perfect pair...

So, about this stone. What's it like? How does it compare to others?

The other day I saw a thread that was talking about powered circular wet stone sharpeners using a King 1K round stone. It inspired me to get my King 1K out again. Yes its got short comings, its dishes quickly, it's not overly fast, it's a soaker, but man I love this stone. It likes light...

Has anyone any suggestions, preferably splash and go, for good 120 ish grit stones. From what I understand the Shapton Pro and Glass 120's are problematic in that they glaze pretty easily and need resurfacing regularly. Is that your experience? What other options have people tried that work...

Was just thinking. I love the Suehiro Ouka 3K for the feels. But I'd like it even more if it had more keenness and more bite so I was thinking. Could one pulverize it, add some 1.5K and 8K Aluminum Oxide and reform it? No idea how its formed, but I have a forge, a Kiln, a 24 ton press and a...

The Suehiro Cerax and standard line have been spoken about a fair amount with mostly positive views from a sharpening perspective. The Debados. I don't see much about them. Has anyone any experience thy could share? How do they compare to other stones?

So. I really like Cerax 1K slurry on the Mori 4K. Problem is, to get the slurry I need to get the Cerax out, soak it a few minutes, and then using a 140 grit plate, raise slurry on it and then transfer that to the Mori. Time consuming. Was thinking if I could grind a Cerax 1K up I would have...

So in another thread I was replying to @KingShapton and it spurred an idea. I normally do slurry blending using a lower grit base stone with a higher grit slurry, often an Aoto. What if one did the opposite? So I took a Shapton Pro 5K which is a very hard high grit finisher and put some King...

In the grand rabbit hole of Waterstones, there comes a time in every travelers journey where they must question what they are looking for. I spent a time being fascinated with hair whittling, playing with edges so sharp I could have gotten a job on the Manhattan project, but these days I tend to...

I know a number of you have this stone and I am late to the party. The one I ordered arrived today. Here are my first days impressions. Rights out of the box it looks great. A nice light gray with cool Kenji. Who wants to hear about packaging. Yawn. Probably want to hear how it was to use. To...

Your buddy sends you an exciting stone to try in the mail but it’s so cold if you put water on it it will freeze or crack. The tease.

I like aggressive edges with lots of bite so I tend to go with hybrid edges. Often a 1K stropped on something between a 5K and 8K and often with Aoto slurry on the finisher. Yumm. Enter the Shapton Kuromaku 2k. I love this stone. Feels amazing. Nice blend of speed, feedback etc. Problem is, its...

Now that its been about a bit, is there any consensus on the BBB 400 diamond stone? Assuming steels like AS, White, Blue, 52100, R2, AEBL, standard stuff we use in the kitchen. And the query is for sharpening, not blade road thinning or flattening. Does it have a speed advantage? Keeping in...

Does anyone have a Shapton Pro / Kuromaku AND the same grit Shapton M15? Are they the same stones sans the base?

In a thread yesterday there was discussion of "Steels" and ceramic rods. My 2 cents offer was that Steels remove very little if any metal and work by knocking an edge straight, where a ceramic rod is more like a round version of a sharpening stone and work by removing metal. Hmmmmmm. Turns out...

In an earlier thread I was sharing that I found the Shapton Pro 1K, 1.5K and 2K where to me at least, greatly improved by grinding off the outer layer. I was wondering if the much bemoaned Shapton Pro 5K would be the same. Luckily for me, a forum member had one not seeing much use and I was able...

I have a Naniwa Pro 2K I'd like to trade for a Shapton Pro 2K.

Now that Ken has passed I was looking at a stone I use all the time, the Nubatama Platinum 1K, and wondering where I'd get another when it wears out. Well, a solution presented itself when a friend sent a stone as a present. In use, apart from being a little smaller, I could not tell it apart...

Guys, I've had the Shapton 220 for a while now and liked it enough that I got the 1K, 1.5K and 2K. Out of the box the 1K, 1.5K and 2K where pretty horrible ( the 1K being least offensive and the 1.5k being the worse ). The 1K felt more like a skaty grainy 600 and the others where just skaty...