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Fastest cutting 220 waterstone, need recommendation

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yepimonfire

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My norton 220 is wearing down so ill probably be replacing it sometime this year. I'd like to find something very fast cutting as I only use the 220 to sharpen extremely dull knives or reprofiling edges. I'd like to stick with waterstones, not diamond because I like the way they feel. Any suggestions?
 
Nubatama Bamboo 150, hands down the the best coarse waterstone. Regardless you will need a diamond plate to lap it unless you have a Naniwa or Suehiro lapping plate.
 
How much of your 220 side is left? I've had mine for 4 years and still have 1/16" of an inch left on the 220 side, and that's with excessive flattening.
 
About 1/4" left. I've really worked it hard though. Sharpened an entire kitchen set, reprofiled a cold steel katana (made the geometry convex) and have resharpened my ten knives multiple times and friends extremely dull knives.
 
I have the Shapton Pro (ha-no-kuromaku) #120, which is pretty fast, but I then got the #400 Chosera (or Naniwa Professional or whatever it's called nowadays) and with the relatively soft kitchen knife I was reshaping it felt as fast (if not faster) as the Shapton and the scratch pattern is finer. I haven't done a proper side-by-side, but those were my initial impressions.
 
yepimonfire said:
About 1/4" left. I've really worked it hard though. Sharpened an entire kitchen set, reprofiled a cold steel katana (made the geometry convex) and have resharpened my ten knives multiple times and friends extremely dull knives.
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Impressive. I've been trying to figure out how much longer this little sliver is going to last me.

But yeah, I know how you feel wanting something faster. Personally I'm leaning toward diamond plates though.
 
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