Thread: What is your favorite whetstone/hone???

I would like answers from people that have different selections of stones. If you only own 1 or 2 stones then your answer would restrictive in knowledge and more based on opinion, so.

What is your favorite all around whetstone, natural or synthetic?

What is your favorite bevel setter?

What is your favorite finisher?

Right now I'd have to say my coti is my favorite go to hone, and I can use it for anything from bevel setting to finishing. My favorite bevel setter is my Norton 1000 and my favorite finisher is my coti. Looking hard at the Jnat Kiita, vintage thuringian and new escher for finishers though and just trying them out.

Hands down for Bevel is chosera 1k. Playing with finishers but i cant seem to stay away from my shapton 16k. This may change as im experimenting

synthetik: Shapton pro 2000
natural: all of my oozukus

Hmm, let's see now;

For bevel setting, my Chosera 1K. A wonderfully effective yet gentle tool for the job.

My best finisher is hard to choose, there are so many good ones.
If I had to pick, I would choose my Suehiro Gokumyo 20K, a synthetic, or my Nakayama Maruka Asagi.

I have not used enough stones to give any kind of empirically valid answer to your question. Besides that, I am still learning how to get the best out of some of my stones, and that will probably continue for a long time yet.

However, on a pure "my heart breaks into a big sloppy smile whenever I use it" kind of criteria, my Nakayama maruka asagi fits that bill. It makes my fingers itch, and I am starting to develop the razor version of Munchausen's Syndrome By Proxy....

James.

Originally Posted by xMackx

What is your favorite all around whetstone, natural or synthetic? All of them, I "get rid" of the ones that do not appeal to me. The one stone that I pull out most often is the Shapton GS 16K. Once you really learn the GS's they are very awesome. I may end up changing my mind to a coti if the oil works as well as I hear for finishing...

What is your favorite bevel setter? Chosera 1K, aka the big "green brick".

What is your favorite finisher? All of them. If I had to choose just one, I would say y/g Escher after Shapton 16K, however my heart still belongs to my Charnley Forrest. Everything I hone will visit the Shapton GS 16K before a finisher, period.

It is always interesting to see just how you gentlemen hone, you never know what's going to come up.

Definitely like my Chosera 1K and 2K for bevel setting. For sharpening and polishing, I really like my Ozuku Kiita San.

Bevel Setting: Chosera 1k (for rough work, the Chosera 1k with Coticule slurry).

For Feel/Fav Stone: Norton 8k, it's like stroking a piece of velvet.

Finisher: Escher or Charnley Forest, I go back and forth and just can't pick one.

Bevel setter: Norton 1k

Sharpener/Polisher: Norton 4k/8k

Finisher: Naniwa 12k (though some of my razors prefer the coticule treatment)