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I have some venez diamond bonded stones for knives. I will have to try one for.the sake of science. I got them for some edcs I carry that are stupid hard steels (that's what I told.the wife and she believed me too! Lol). I will try one out soon. I find there is very little.similarity between those and diamond plates.
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I tried one. The stones are made for hard steels.and load up very quickly with plain carbon steels.
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If you want stones for hard steel, that’s what the Shapton Glass High Rockwell (HR) were designed for - the Lie-Nielsen semi-stainless A2 plane steel. They’re about the only thing that can sharpen my Yoshikane SLD slicer, though I don’t like to use my razor hones with knives as a general rule. Some jnats will cut it, others won’t.
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“I have some venez diamond bonded stones for knives. I tried one. The stones are made for hard steels.and load up very quickly with plain carbon steels.”
My experience also, they load up and are a pain to clean without removing a lot of material, so where is the benefit?
Barkeepers and a diamond plate get’s them clean without removing too much material, but still not a recommended stone/plate.
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If I remember correctly they suggest a sic stone. I have an old stone that I've used for cleanup. Seems to work well. Most of the time a green pad wet cleans the swarf up enough.