Review on 🔪 Enhance Your Sharpening Skills with the King Japanese Nagura Stone 8000 by Chef Deane

I see a lot of negative reviews on this product but that's because people have NO idea how to use this stone. This is not a traditional draw the knife over stone. Essentially, the BASIC TASK of the Nagura is to clear your sharpening stone of chips and dirt. This is part of the sharpening process, during sharpening you remove the metal from the knife and it has to go somewhere. In your stone, this is the most likely position. Nagura will remove this substance from your stone. Important however DO NOT use this on a "low grit" stone ie 220, 400, etc. should be used for cleaning 3000 grit and up. This stone is also used to create a slurry/slurry on a REAL whetstone, increasing the sharpening ability of your stone. Nagura can also be used to set the stone, but honestly I'd omit that to reduce the granularity of the stones. specially designed for this purpose or diamond plate. This stone is AMAZING at what it does. I used it last night and it was perfect and helped me get a high gloss finish. This wasn't the only step in my process as hand sharpening is a multi-step process, but adding it to a higher grit stone (3000 grit in my case) added a nice "edge" (pun intended) to my sharpening game. Find out what you need a Nagura stone for (google) and how to use it and you will fall in love with this stone like me! Buy, you can't go wrong!