What I recommend is getting the three stone naniwa set from SRD and forgetting about all of the rest.
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What I recommend is getting the three stone naniwa set from SRD and forgetting about all of the rest.
Surgical Black Arkies and Translucent are only around 1000-1200grit....
I was just looking at those. I think they are 10-12K (?) whereas the soft/hard whites are < 8K. Another user posted a link to them here: Best Sharpening Stones
Here is the 4-stone set: http://www.bestsharpeningstones.com/...Stone_Kits.htm