My question would be like "store brand" vs name brand items in lets say your local grocery market..hope this makes sense ;-)


So..I was curious to know if Naniwa's/Shapton/Norton/King..etc..."name brand" stones
were any different than their Japanese/European counterpart brands Sun Tiger/Bester/King Shapton..."store brand" stones

Is it REALLY worth the extra money in the end trying to get the same result..or is this a YMMV question

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