🔪 Enhance Your Cutting Precision with Shapton Ceramic Kuromaku Abrasive & Finishing Products - Whetstone Sharpening at its Best Review

After a lot of research and usage the Shapton Pro series and the Shapton Kuromaku series are exactly the same in terms of performance. These are Shapton stones sold in Japan. The official reason Shapton stated they made another series for the States is because they were made for the US climate, not the high humidity in Japan, the people of the States were cracking rocks . hence the Shapton Pro series. People say they sell cheaper in Japan because Shapton doesn't have as many fans as here in the

I love this ceramic sharpening stone. So this stone came from Japan and delivery takes some time. I knew about this before the deal but decided I didn't need to do it beforehand so the price was right for me. Actually it came a week earlier than expected so all is good. Now let's get to the stone. It appears to be a real 12000 grit whetstone. It's a waterstone but with this grit and quality you don't really need to soak it and you can use it as a splash and go but I don't mind putting it (and…

I bought 12k as an alternative to using sandpaper for finishing edges after a run of DMT EF/EEF followed by Shapton followed by two sides of Spyderco Ceramic Ultrafine. One side of the Spyderco UF is coated with EEF, which I use to prepare a high gloss finish on lapping foil. 12k is approximately 1-2 microns (decimals) which is finer than say 3k wet/dry sandpaper. It gives a polished/mirror edge, but not if you use a chisel or large surface grinder as a reference. Large flat surfaces sometimes…