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add initial details about whetstone types
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CarsonDavis committed Sep 5, 2024
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I try to include all of these in every recommendation, with differences in price reflecting a lose of convenience, speed, or quality. At the lowest levels, you have to do without a strop and flattening stone.



Diamond
- glued
- embedded
- resin matrix
- vitrified?
Water
- resin bonded (shapton glass, naniwa professional)
- clay based (king, naniwa superstone)
- magnesia (naniwa chosera, shapton pro kuromaku)
Oil
- aluminum oxide (norton india)
- silicon carbide (norton crystolon)



### Buy it All
$406 is an atrocious amount of money. But it represents the highest quality option in every category and has every stone you could possibly need.
#### Flattening Stone
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