ShaptonMedium Grade Millstone Mastermind Green # 2000 of B

In the world of whetstones 1000 grit is probably the most popular grit level. You can do almost all normal/basic sharpening on a 1000 grit whetstone and be perfectly fine. A 1000 grit whetstone will bring somewhat dull knives back to life. As a sushi chef, my knives are never really dull but they do lose their sense of razor sharpness after about 1-2 weeks of work with regular honing and stropping.I found overtime that 1000 grit is fine but I needed something lighter to touch up the edge of my knives to bring them back to 100% without needing a 1000 grit stone. This 2000 grit Shapton ceramic stone does just the trick. Its not as hard as 1000 grit but just a step above to remove just enough metal to make a good cutting edge razor sharp again.The feedback of this stone is nice and smooth. Even at 2000 grit, this stone still cuts nicely enough where I was able to get a burr after only a couple passes, which is exactly what I'm looking for. It's a splash and go which is convenient, so no need to soak in water. Shapton does recommend you soak the stone in water for the FIRST USE for about 5 minutes. But after that no need to soak. It comes in a nice colored carrying case which also doubles as a stand you can use for sharpening.This is a great 2000 grit whetstone from Shapton. There aren't many 2000 grit whetstones out there from most manufacturers so I give props for Shapton for actually making one. Will this replace a 1000 grit whetstone, most likely no. But it is a nice supplemental stone for those looking for a nice tune up to their knives edges, especially for professional kitchen users.

Remarkably efficent stone and with the bonus of being 'splash and go', so no messy soaking episodes. No instructions but I don't mind a few colour illustrations to accompany the Japanese text. lapped the stone with a flat 300 diamond plate and used it straight away with very good results. Not cheap, but again you get what you pay for; too many bad memories of rubbishy sharpening stones that dish out and promise fake grit readings. Definitely recommend these stones for any halkf-serious woodworker/leathercrafter. I'm probbaly going to sucker myself into going for the 5000 grit next even though all my blades are adequately sharp and polished. Addictive and rewarding.

I wasn't getting the results I wanted from my diamond stones directly to a strop.This was a nice in between, a polishing stone, it gave me the results I wanted, great hair wiggling sharpness.However, you do need to have a good formed apex, and removed the burr before coming to this stone. Even so if you mismatch the angle while on this stone you're just wasting time not getting a burr, and just getting frustrated even ruining the existing apex. The sound on the stone is great, it really helps it sounds like a soft Japanese sand stone but it cuts like diamond.So sometimes you need to go back to #1000 and back to this #2000 again, until you get good enough to form a burr and remove it.Once you do, the results speak for themselves.You'll also need one of those japanese rust sponges to clean it up, it gets filled up with gunk quite often, and it cuts well while dirty but if you're polishing a thinned knife you get better results with constant cleaning and water, unlike low grit where the mud helps with the cutting.I find the price high but worth it, because I only tried cheap stuff before, clearly not as expensive as the 70-170 stones but still 50-60 isn't 35.

Tutta questa gamma è ottima, se usate con criterio e attenzione, ravvivano lame che erano spente da tanto.Bella marca.

These are the best stones on the market, and the cheapest. Cheapest in terms of the various top tier Japanese water stones (naniwa, suehiro, bester etc). I use them mostly for razors, chisels, plane blades, but mostly razors. The 1k is a metal eater, it’s fast as heck, hard, slow wearing. I hone razors commercially, roughly 300 a year plus all of my own and at this rate I’ll get 15 years out of it. That’s pretty great for a $40 stone. The 2k may be the star of the whole lineup. It’s got the best feedback, creamy feel, fast cutting, again slow wearing. The 5k is super fast as well and puts a bright polish on the bevel. Essentially a mirror finish. This 5k and the 8 and 12k don’t really wear at all. They will most likely last the rest of my life. The 8 and 12 are also super fast, hard and slow wearing. The shaving edges off the 12k are good, especially if you do 10 laps on chromium oxide after.For knives I really like the 1k, and especially the 2k. The 2k is a great finisher for most western knives, German, Us made stuff. For Japanese knives I like to go a little higher..The 5k puts a brilliant polish on a knife, but it’ just lacks feedback. It is feels kind of dead. The 8k is a little better in this regard. But overall, the finer stones all don’t have the greatest feedback for knives. But like I said, the finish is great. The 8 and especially 12k will leave a perfect mirror polish. But there really isn’t any knives that I would use the 12k for. 8k is the max.