Norton Combination Grit Abrasive Benchstone, Aluminum Oxide, 6" Length x 2" Width x 1" Height

The stone is great. It cuts well as you can feel it bites into the material. It doesn't wear out a lot so the stone geometry wont change much. I bought three of them, two of them arrive normally and i am using them happily.however, for the last one, they sent wrong item twice! i keep getting the black silicon carbide one instead of the aluminum oxide one with one side being orange. this is really annoying since i have to send it back twice for replacement and refund as well. for real amazon, check your warehouse, did you have the wrong label on tray??

The combination of the coarse India and the fine India stones let me touch-up nicks in the cutting edge, then put the final working sharp on the blade. Great for wood chisels, hatchets, kitchen knives, pretty-much any cutting edge. Because of the uses I have for my cutting tools - leather work, fine wood carving - I do not use oil while sharpening. I clean the metal residue from the stone with oil and thoroughly wipe all the oil I can from the stone, in order to keep the oil away from my cutting tools. The fine-side will give you an edge with which you can shave hair off your arm.

Same stones I have used most of my life. Great for kitchen knives, keeps blade usefully sharp with just a quick touch no oil, acts as much as a burnish as metal cutting. Very aggressive sharping when used with oil to keep the stone from clogging. If you want razer sharp, you need finer but I don't see why that is needed for a kitchen knife. I only use the course side for thinning down old blades.

This Norton stone works better than any Arkansas stone that I have used. The coarse cuts fast to create an edge, and the fine leaves a very clean and sharp edge that will cut well. Finish with a leather strop, and you will have a shaver.

Overall a nice stone and came in a nice cardboard box. I’m taking off a star because the different sides of the stone are not marked in any way as to coarseness. The difference between the two is so close I’m not sure I’m using the finer side

Used this to stone internal parts of a Contender as the action was stiff and hard to open. A few passes with this stone and there was immediate improvement. My father is 75 and was having a hard time opening the handgun. This was just the ticket to making it smoother for him. Sits with my gun workbench among the tools. Would buy again.

One of, if not the best table stones out there. Remember to include some high purity / USP mineral oil or similar if you’re stoning your CNC machines table, and don’t press too hard and don’t stay in one spot too long.These are also great for sharpenging chefs, camping, hunting, fishing, and tactical knives. When using on a knife, be sure to use the orange side with some oil, as the brown side might be too much (especially for thinner blades). If using on thicker metal as found in an axe, start with the brown side for dulled axes and then move to the orange side or just start with the orange side for an axe that needs a sharp / fine edge put back on.I have not tried it on a sushi knife, but you might want to get something with an even finer surface for that.

I have four Japanese water stones that are quite good at putting the final edge on my expensive knives but the sharpening "ceremony" involved in taking a knife all the way through to 8K grit is an afternoon eater. I bought this Norton India stone to handle the sharpening duties associated with my EDC knives and my wood carving knives. Many carvers assert that you should only ever need a strop to keep your knives sharp but I don't agree. In 15 minutes, I got 5 flat grind detail and roughing knives and two Scandi grind Mora knives VERY sharp on the fine side of this stone. I finished with a leather strop and was back to carving. I strongly recommend this stone.