Norton 24335 Japanese-Style Combination Waterstone 220/1000 Grit, 8-Inch by 3-Inch by 1-Inch

• Waterstone to create abrasive slurry for effective sharpening with less pressure than an oilstone requires
• Combination stone has 220 grit on one face for repairing and 1000 grit on the opposite face for establishing steel cutting edges
• 1 x 8 x 3 inch (H x W x D) size is suitable for use as a bench stone for knives and tools
• Cleans up easily with water as lubricant instead of oil
• Blue plastic hinged box with no-slip rubber feet can be used as holder for the stone during sharpening

This stone is quality made and came with a neat plastic case to store it in and sit it on while using it. It has corner retainers on the top to hold your stone in place while using it.

I quickly found the drawback in using waterstones, the wear factor.

The 220 side wore a "dish" in it after honing just one chisel (a new Stanley FatMax) and I realized this stone was going to wear out quick after truing it back up after each use.

I remembered 3M makes a Wet or Dry sandpaper that's much cheaper and so I bought a square foot piece of granite floor tile from a local home improvement store along with some 3M General Purpose Spray Adhesive.

The Wet or Dry paper works GREAT and I've since purchased finer grits of it as well and ditched using the wet-stones all together since they wear fast and are pricey.

The sandpaper method is much easier for me and cheaper, but I suppose it comes down to a matter of preference.

These stones are of good quality, so I can't speak negatively of them, but not sure they're the best route for sharpening chisels/planer blades over using wet or dry sandpaper glued to granite....

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This is an attractively priced waterstone for setting a bevel on a straight razor. I have used it to reset the bevel on all of my straight razors and the final results, after finishing with a Norton 4K/8K combination waterstone and stopping with an Illinois No. 827 strop, have been "baby-butt-smooth" (BBS) shaves. A good product.

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This is a great stone to own, especially if you're just wanting to try out water-stones and don't want to spend a heap of money right off the bat. The 220/1000 combination is said by some to be impractical, but that's in the face of many people who sharpen in that exact progression as well as Norton's own designs for these water-stones. Their other stones also skip from 1000 to 4000 to 8000, much steeper than you will see in other water-stones, but the grits are meant to work with each other. I've found no real difference when mixing a 325 and 750 grit in between the 220 and 1000, you just wind up spending more of your time you could have spent just transitioning to the 1000.

The only thing that I don't really like about the stone is that it requires flattening a lot, the 220 side specially. The more you flatten, the faster the stone will wear away. Mine is actually about half an inch thick now because I dished out the 220 side repairing a blade and had to remove so much to get it flat again. This might not be an issue for those that can find the flat spots to grind on, but I think if you're going to be sharpening a lot on the 220 side it might actually make more sense to just buy the solid grit 220 stone since you will need to flatten that side much more.

As far as how sharp it gets... There's way too many ego-inflating, nonsensical "sharpness" tests, and I'll tell you I've achieved most of them with just this stone alone. It will easily produce an edge that will "push-cut" through newspaper or cleanly shave hair off of dry skin with no flaking or catching, and will even split and whittle them if stopped a little afterward. In the end it really depends a lot on your technique, skill level and how much you want to invest polishing a blade on a 1000 grit stone--it can definitely be done, but mistakes are a lot costlier on 1000 grit than 4000.

I really like the plastic case that it comes in too, makes a great non-slide sharpening bench to rest the stone on too

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Great stone, worked great! Now I need to buy the 4000 grit stone but the 1000 sharpened my kitchen Wusthof knives to the point they would cut through paper. Very impressed.

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Good grit combo for very dull to dull knives. I have had no issues using this stone so far. 4 stars only for delivery as my first set came in cracked. Replacement came in perfect condition (great replacement policy).