Best option for a ceramic stone

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lukkyseven

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I'm trying to figure out what the best bang for your buck is when buying a ceramic sharpener. I'd like it to be at least 2" wide. Currently my finest grit stone is a DMT diamond extra extra fine. It does a great job, but as I enjoy sharpening and challenging myself to get better I'd like to get a ceramic stone. I have the Ultra fine from the sharpmaker, but the rods are kind of a pain. I'm hoping to get something a little bit larger.
 
The Spyderco UF 3 x 8 is an amazing ultra fine stone. It's great for touch ups, final stone(near mirror), and also practicing due to how slow it cuts. It's my favorite stone right now and also what helped me develop my technique.
 
Same as above, the Spyderco 306UF bench stone is awesome. I would probably tear up if anything ever happened to it.
 
There is a Smith's 2x6 ceramic stone for about 6 bucks that I have and works well. I would like to try the Spyderco stone myself.
 
I use the three Spyderco 8x2" bench stones (medium, fine, ultrafine). I'm pleased with them. All are available separately. But I also frequently use the Double Stuff and the fine and ultrafine rods from the Sharpmaker, freehand method. Spyderco seems to be the standard for ceramic sharpening stones.
 
The spyderfile set(brown and white) works really, really well and offers the option of doing serrated stuff as well.
I carry a pocket kit with a 4"x1" Hewlett combo diamond plate and a Gatco brown ceramic dogbone and that will cover 99% of what I need to do-I've even done a couple on-the-spot sharpenings for restaurants with that setup.
 
if you are willing to maintain your edge without letting it get too dull my recommendation if you could only have one stone for the rest of your life would be the spyderco 302F. it is 2"x8", and spyderco claims will last a lifetime. I had tried many stones before this one with varying degrees of success. I have tried dmt stones, Arkansas stones, and ez lap diamond stones, and of all of these the spyderco wins by a wide margin. With my vg10 delica, I would sharpen with about 10 passes on each side twice a month and would bring the edge back to arm hair shaving sharp in less than 2 minutes. The stone at $50 or $60 is a more expensive than some, but if you buy it first, you will save money in the end by not having to go through several stones to find the right one.
 
Also liking the spyderco ceramic whet stones. I have the medium and fine, and you will do fine with those especially if you got strop but I still consider maybe getting the ultra fine eventually..
 
Guys thanks for the reply's. The Spyderco stuff was on my radar already and this just sures it up. I think I'll be buying the F and UF.
 
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