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Yes King stones are slow cutters, I still use my 1200 King for a few uses but cutting ability is not one of them haha. It leaves a very nice smoked look on Iron, when sharpening my single bevel...

Grit size unfortunatly is not very uniform... Just close... So if you get 5 1k stones from 5 different manufacturers you will have 5 slightly different stones. At the lower ranges this is not a huge...