Can someone recommend a whetstone in course medium and fine grain that is of fair quality. Whether stone or diamond?
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I purchased the Gato 8T001 a couple years ago and it is a wonderful set of stones. Great quality at a great price. Works great for blades for the field and in the kitchen.
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Yes, buy this one it is very high quality does an outstanding job you won't be disappointed!
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I bought this Sharpening Stone as a gift for my Grandson and he has sharpened all his kitchen knives and hunting knives and said that it's the only one he needs.
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Hi Jenny. I usually use only the "Smith's DCS4 4-Inch FINE & COARSE Diamond Combo Sharpening Stones" and works great. The knives stay very sharp for 1 month, in moderate use.
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Very carefully. I carry medium/fine round stones for field touch ups and at home since the shape makes it pretty much impossible to use a good flat stone, but ill take in into a local prefessional to get that razor edge back on there.
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Thailand...where beautiful carved stones are commonly made. It's great quality - season it properly and you will be very pleased with your purchase!
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Found it on Amazon. I searched for replacement stone for TrueSharp. For the fine and coarse stones is about $20. Oil I would sewing machine oil. Hopes this helps you.
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Ultra Fine did it for me. You can also strop after Ultra for an even finer edge! BTW go very easily w/ the Ultra Fine stones. It does not require many passes per side and with very light pressure.
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I don't use anything, I just keep it in a kitchen drawer and it puts a decent edge on my German steel knives. If you want something like a razor you could start out with this and finish up with a diamond stone. I think I paid $6 for mine and it's worth that. It's probably not a stone for a purist but just a good, everyday stone.
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Yes the diamond grits range from extra-extra course which is about 120 grit and the extra-extra fine is about 8000 grit so I just purchased a course, medium and extra fine for my sharping needs.
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So far I have only used the honing oil provided by Smith. But any light weight oil will work quite satisfactorily. This is a good quality stone and will create an excellent.knife edge. It will require some patience to learn how to maintain the same sharpening angle with each stroke. Good luck.
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The 5 stone set comes with Extra Course, course, medium, fine and ultra fine. I added a saphire stone when i ordered the kit.
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It should work fine,but one word of caution. I bought this for my son and he said after about ten uses the stones seemed worn out. Like the diamonds had come off.
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I use a Japanese sharpening stone to sharpen mine, such as the King 47506 1000/6000 Combination Grit Waterstone. To rectify, any good ceramic sharpening rod will do, as long as you keep a 19 degree angle or so. Hope this helps.
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I use a diamond machining technology (DMT) sharpener--fine + medium surfaces. Actually, I use only the fine and amazingly enough that seems sufficient. The one I have no longer appears to be listed on Amazon, but I would think any fine DMT sharpener would be OK--they're relatively inexpensive. The closest I can come to what I have is http://www.amazon.com/DMT-D4F-Dia-Sharp-Continuous-Diamond/dp/B002D4K90M/ref=sr_1_27?ie=UTF8&qid=1392345271&sr=8-27&keywords=diamond+machining+technology
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Not sure, but I would think you would be safe with white. The sample pictured here is gold. Couldn't find a picture of one called diamond.
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A whetstone. From what I've read about those pocket sharpeners that you just drag the blade through, they eat your blade up. Whetstones take practice, but you'll be better off in the end.
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http://www.amazon.com/Norton-Flattening-Stone-Waterstones-plastic/dp/B00067ZSJ0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1419972862&sr=8-1&keywords=flattening+stone This is what you want for that job. I own both the flattening stone and the diamond stone and I can't imagine using that flimsy small diamond stone to flatten my Japanese water stone. It just isn't the right tool for the job, and it wouldn't give you the results you need. See my review for what this stone is good for.
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Don't know where people come up with some of the things they say. Diamonds are fine for japanese knives, they are fine for any knives, including ceramic. I am a professional sharpener, and I have an extensive collection of custom and single smith japanese kitchen knives some of them costing many hundreds of dollars. I have no qualms sharpening with diamonds, even on Hitachi Aogami Super steel with rockwell hardnesses of 65HRC, or powdered metallurgy stainless steels. DMT plates are amongst the best diamond sharpening tools out there. I recommend mixing one drop of dish soap with about 8 ounces of water and using a spray bottle to keep the surface of the plate wet throughout sharpening, you will produce a superior result with this technique. Again, I own a sharpening business, and I use diamonds, natural N. American, and Japanese stones, as well as synthetic stones, they all work very well on every kind of steel out there. A 1200 grit to 4000 grit progression will be fine as long as you work the scratch pattern to as smooth as possible with the 1200 grit stone, as it will take a lot of work to get the scratch pattern of the 1200 grit stone smoothed out with the 4000 grit stone. You will get a nice edge at 4000 grit, but as has been said, you could probably stop at 1200 grit for a kitchen knife if you wanted. I enjoy a nicely refined edge though, so I say go as far with it as you feel comfortable.