Does king neo 800 works for non stainless steels aswell?

[sarpado]

What the tittle says i was wondering if it would work on non stainlles steel because its advertised for stainless knives

 

[chalby]

What the tittle says i was wondering if it would work on non stainlles steel because its advertised for stainless knives

Yes, the Neo is fine for all steels. I think the reason they advertise that stone for stainless knives are that the stone uses silicon carbide for the abrasive. SiC is a more effective abrasive for the carbide rich steels in Japanese high end knives like SG2 and ZDP 189 vs aluminum oxide in most of the other water stones out there that struggle with these.

 

[SCTorrero]

I think it would depend on the non-stainless steel in question. High vanadium carbide steels may be better suited for diamond or CBN.

 

[chalby]

I think it would depend on the non-stainless steel in question. High vanadium carbide steels may be better suited for diamond or CBN.

Absolutely, and thanks for the correction. The Neo won't be much good for those. I was thinking of basic carbon steels and basic stainless steels for common kitchen knives in my first post.

Any steel with more than about 4 or 5% vanadium carbides(or significant amounts of other harder carbides) will respond better with diamond or CBN as posted above. In the ballpark of S30V and that family of steels are probably the upper limit of what I would be comfortable sharpening on the Neo.