ShaptonK0706 Blade Black Edge #220 Rough Moss

I own all of the Shapton Pro stones except the 30k and they are all great, but not all necessary.120 Grit is excellent for removing material but leaves deep scratches if you push to hard, this stone is very coarse and is medium wearing compared to other Shapton stones, but still wears slower compared to other companies. I use this stone for fixing chips etc. but if there is an excessive amount of material to remove I'll use a diamond as this is not as fast as a diamond plate.220 Grit is good for working out minor chips but wears pretty fast. It will last you hundreds of sharpens but you will visibly see the stone wearing each sharpen. I would say this stone wears faster than the 120. If I could do it over I would skip this one or buy it in Glass form. It does the job but I'm not that crazy about it.320 Grit is excellent as well, and can fix minor chips or restore a dull edge pretty fast. It wears slower than the 220 but faster than the 120 in my experience. Like the 320 you will see a mud coming off the stone but at a slower pace than the 220. A great stone and worth a buy, but once again it's better in Glass form. If you were to finish on this stone it would leave an aggressive toothy edge.1000 Grit is excellent, a coarse medium stone that is more comparable to an 800 grit. Feels great to sharpen on, wears slow and can sharpen up a dull edge and is a great stone after the 320. This was my go to stone, that is till I got the 1500. This stone will leave a toothy edge if finished on.1500 Grit is one of my favorites, its a medium stone that is not as coarse as the 1k but in the middle of the road of the medium grit range. It feels smooth but also feels like it is doing a great job cutting. It is slow wearing and it feels more like a 1k then the actual 1k stone and is definitely worth a buy. Still leaves a toothy edge if finished on.The 2000 Grit is my favorite, its on the finer side of the medium range and feels excellent, smooth, and almost as if this is where the polishing starts but the stone still cuts a decent amount. The stone is very slow wearing and can easily last a lifetime or years and years depending on how much you sharpen.But out of the 1k, 1.5k, and 2k if you can only afford one I would go with the 1.5k. Simply because if you are coming from a 320 you only need one of these stones, and 1.5k is the perfect progression from the 320 and can also be sharpened on by itself to touch up an edge where the 2k may be a little to fine and take much longer. Leaves a finer toothy edge which feels really nice.The 5000 Grit is where the polishing begins. It doesn't have the greatest feedback but cuts and polishes up an edge with no problem. A necessary stone in my opinion. This is where the polished edges begin, you can still get a toothy edge from this if you don't stay on it to long, but if you spend a bit more time on it the edge will become polished.The 8000 Grit is great and where a mirror polish really starts to happen. Like the 5k it doesn't feel the best but does the job no problems. This stone is where most people would end on as their progression and for good reason. A great stone and best to jump to after the 5k. But if you can't afford two polishing stones you can jump to this after 1.5k but will spend more time on it than if you came from the 5k. Leaves a fine polished edge.12000 Grit is another excellent polishing stone, feels really smooth and not much feedback like all the Pro polishing stones. But it does its job and offers a decent mirror polish. It will still leave micro scratches if you look closely but still creates a great mirror polish. Not necessary but using this stone as a final stone gives really razor sharp results. Obviously it leaves a very fine polished edge.30000 I don't have this one! I will update whenever I get it, have to pay taxes and simply cannot afford it right now. I mean I can but I'm not going into my savings account to buy a stone I don't need.

So far this stone has been great it sharpens my knives easily and quickly although I’m fairly new to using a stone it was easy to learn. I’d recommend this stone to anyone looking to buy a good stone for the price.

Let the slurry build up until it's like wet mud. Unlike diamond stones that show up gritty but lose most of it after five minutes -- if you want a 320-grit diamond stone you have to buy a 220-grit -- this water stone keeps its grit. And unlike diamond stones, it doesn't constantly clog up, which diamond stones do even with a honing liquid to lift out the swarf. You may need a piece of sacrificial steel to get the slurry going. (I'm using the iron from the cheapest block plane they had at Home Depot.) Or maybe not. Warning: When it shows up, you'll feel the surface and be disappointed. It's not sharp like #120 sandpaper. I think the surface wears as you go, and the slurry holds the grit that does the work. I was disappointed until I was flattening a spokeshave iron. I was growing increasingly frustrated, but then all of the sudden I heard it start to grind or cut, and in a few minutes the stone did what it would have taken a few hours to accomplish with my DMT 220-grit diamond stone. Obviously, this stone is for heavy work. Because these stones are splash-n-go, they're incredibly convenient. If I knew then what I know now, I'd have only bought these, and have a progression of grits. I got the Shapton 12,000-grit stone for Christmas, and I couldn't be happier with it. Do they stay flat? Yes and no, depending on what you need. If you're sharpening an iron for a smoothing plane, then you need to worry about the smallest variations; if you're sharpening knives, you have more room to play with. I have an el-cheapo dressing stone, so I use that and my other stones against each other and it seems to be working fine. (I think you can get flatness with just three stones, but the cheap dressing stone is helping by making a bridge between this stone and the higher-grit stones.) I flatten with every use, so it takes very little time -- and is oddly satisfying. Will diamond stones outlast these Shaptons? Sure. Why not? Will diamond stones last a lifetime? Yes, but only if you plan to live as long as a large-breed dog. A coworker has a set of DMT stones with the diamond clearly worn off much or most of the surfaces. He happily sharpens away on surfaces that are part diamond, part exposed steel, but that's okay, because diamond stones are just the super-duper bestest! Are there better stones that these Shaptons? Sure. Why not? If you find them and the price is right, buy 'em. This is about getting the best you can afford, not brand loyalty. Until then, my long-term plan is to collect a functional, if incomplete, set of these. I am very satisfied.

The stone came well packaged and arrived pretty quickly.The stone itself does an awesome job of putting an edge on dull knives with very little effort, some of my knives took a little longer to get sharp, but that's because they had been neglected the longest.Great product and would highly recommend.

Very reliable maintenance stone

Very good deal stone for rough work on knives. Its my first stone of this rough grit but I'm happy with it.

Legit product that arrived on time

works super fast, spray and go