📦 Spyderco Ultra Benchstone Pouch, 1-Inch Review

There are small protrusions on both sides - about 0.2mm high and 3mm x 60mm - obviously from the grinding wheel. In 30 minutes, grind them x-coarse and then coarse with DMT. Using a permanent marker, draw a grid on the stone surface and then set it in place. Both sides are high in the middle - a gradual sag towards the edge of about 0.6mm and 0.4mm deep. After 2 hours 1 side was almost flat except for 2 sagging edges at 0.1mm x 5mm x 75mm deep and 0.1mm x 3mm x 40mm deep. The end result is…

The stone works well for sharpening my woodworking tools. It cuts very quickly. My other sharpeners are 2" x 6" diamond sharpeners and they run a bit small when sharpening my largest plane which is over 2" hairs wide. This stone is large enough to easily sharpen my largest plane. A few People on the badger and blade forum (where they use it to sharpen a razor) have complained that the sharpening isn't flat enough and that you can see milling marks when sharpening I can indeed see milling marks…

I really, really, really like diamond and ceramic flap stones over the old oil stones. I don't think I ever learned how to handle oil stones; My friends can get extremely sharp edges with oil stones, but I can't seem to. Anyway, I went for the DMT diamond stone set and found that the ultra thin diamond stone is not as thin as I would have liked. I already had a small, pocket-sized Spyderco ceramic sharpener and used it with my diamond blades to get the sharp, mirror finish I was looking for…