oppinion needed on sharpening stones.

[Tinderbox (UK)]

their is only 1 set avaliable for around £22.00 delivered.

what i want to know is are these cheap rubbish or will they last a long time.

three different stones (Coarse, Fine, Extra Fine).

thankyou.

John.

 

[rebeltf]

Do not recognize the brand but that does'nt mean squat , there are probably dozens of brands if not hundreds most of us never see.
Question are they made in China ? No offense to our Chinese brothers at all intended but the one Chinese stone I bought at Harbor Freight was a piece of junk , oddly enough I have an older stone also made in China and it works quite well , I use it for my axe or machetes.

At any rate if your going to buy stones I would buy some good hard , medium and soft Arkansas stones , just my three cents.............

I do believe on stones that you will truly get what you pay for , doesnt mean you have to spend a bankroll on your stones though.

 

[yuzuha]

Don't know. King makes a good ceramic resin bonded diamond stone (like a waterstone) and Norton, DMT and Eze-lap make good metal diamond plates. Most of the others shed diamonds like crazy since they are simply bonded "onto" the surface instead of sintered "into" the surface, but these might be good... you'd have to buy one and try it out.

 

[trekon86]

I just use a small hard, fine-grit Arkansas stone, think it's a Smiths from Kmart. When I got it for Christmas years ago I think it cost maybe ten, fifteen bucks for the kit (Medium grit on a wooden block, Smiths honing oil, fine-grit stone, etc.
PMZ
PS--I almost never use an angle-bracket thing. I never could figure out how to use them. Instead of doing the "slice a layer off the top" movement, I use a circular motion on top of the stone, that way I keep the angle the same all over on both sides.