I just bought an Ice Bear 1000 last week . I was at Woodcraft and it was time to have a synthetic 1K.

I decided to buy the Chocera 2K from Chef Knives To Go. They are located here in Wisconsin. (When you have a good local business, you buy from them). It should be here Tuesday.

I will compare them (to an extent), though I have read that the 2k is closer to the 3K than the 1K. On a micron basis it is. But it should give me an idea of how the inexpensive waterstone compares to the pricey one. I may not have the skill to really compare.

I know I have a tendency to move to the higher grit stones too soon. So, I want to have some lower grit stones that might be more enjoyable.

After 2K it will be just naturals. Aoto, medium finisher and fine finisher.

So has an Asagi with some Habutae character to it for a fine finisher for me. We are still talking over the medium finisher.