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Have a look here too. Maybe cheaper?
Ardennes Coticule - natural sharpening stones from Vielsalm Belgium. - Online shop

The $15 ones are 8"x2". Not house brick size :)

Guess they thought it was cheaper to put stickers on the box than re-stamp the hone.
BTW Nice honest review there Mick :tu

Yeah they'll love that :D

I bet a lot of Kasumi owners are doing the reverse pyramid :p

No problemo amigo. The upside on being so soft is that they cut fast & they're easy to lap but they're really better suited to knife sharpening IMHO

I gave a CD a swipe with both sides of the stone & the white side left coarser scratches.
On steel they both leave such a mirror polish its hard to tell but if you scratch plastic with it its more...

Have a look at the end of the box for a sticker & tell me what it says. My one read opposite to what was stamped on the stone. I think the white is 3k same as a Norton combo. The white is a much...

Hey Mick did you the the Kasumi 3/8k from Everten's ? Which side do they reckon is the 3k ? I got one last year & it was stamped @r$e about

I may be stating the obvious but keep oil & kero away from waterstones if you buy some :)

I figured you might. 6k is going to have to work hard after 1k & you will dish the stone sooner than if you had a 2k &/or 4k in between.

I found pasted strops improved the C12k edge when I used it. See what works for you.
You've got a bit of a jump there from 800 to 4k. Do you spend a lot of time on the 4k ?

1k is necessary if you buy razors on eBay...As is some kind of lapping system for your stones ;)

Personally I think 1k --->6k is a big jump . I prefer to go 1k 2k 4k or another option is 1k,3k,6k but 1k,4k, 8k is maybe a better progression. I just think you will spend a lot of time lapping...

Yup Everten's are about the cheapest here for DMT's

Then you have Carbatec for Kings & super cheap China 12k's
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