Iman Nagura Stone, 7/8" x 7/8" x 3", Light-Colored, Fine Grit

This should be used only on stones of 1000 grit or finer or it will eat up the Nagura Stone. Use each of the 4 sides equally to maintain its square shape and flatness. Its use is to clean the fine metal particles from a stone after use re-flatten the cutting stone after use and to create the cutting lather needed for fine sharpening. Use it on a wet stone only, as the water will suspend the particles making it easy to clean the stone you are working on with a cloth. If the Nagura Stone chatters when you push it then the stone you are cleaning is too dry or deformed in some way. If dry then wet it, if the stone is deformed then turn the Nagura stone 45 degrees to the work stone and smooth out the rough places. Remember, always clean the entire stone to keep it flat. Most people have a tendency to start cleaning the stone about a 1/4 of the way in and stop or lighten pressure about 1/4 of the way to the end. This will cause the Nagura to create a sway back effect and make the work stone hard to use. A damp cloth is all that is needed to clean the Nagura Stone itself.

This item arrived as expected, but what I didn't pick up on from the description was that it is a King Ice Bear stone. It came nicely packed and arrived as expected. It definitely made a difference in the sharpening when I used it with my King 1,000/6,000 combination stone. I'm no expert sharpener, but the slurry it formed stayed on the stone longer than just the water and kept me from having to keep wetting it as often. You could see it pulling the black residue out of the whet stone, which should be helping the stone to cut more efficiently. All in all, nothing too surprising or unexpected, but it just seemed to do exactly what it is supposed to. Can't see any reason to ding it.

Produces a ample slurry with minimum effort. Since I have used no other Nagura stone, I cannot compare to other stones, like Tomo Nagura. I believe this is a synthetic stone and it does work well with the 8K grit Norton and a 12K no name stones that I have.

There is a terrific YouTube video of William Ng and his approach to sharpening. A Nagura Stone like this is key with water stones at the finer grits, where you are really using a slurry to polish a sharpened edge. It works! If you are not a woodworker you may not find joy in a truly sharp tool. But if you ARE a woodworker and you like the idea of making shavings with a plane or chisel, shavings so fine they are translucent, then a Nagura Stone like this will help you get there--if you follow the water stone path. Using a truly sharp tool is a joy. Who among us has enough joy?

Poorly packaged. First one came in broken, second had large chip out of side. I normally use this type of stone to create a slurry to make my stones work better. This is very hard to create that slurry. I only use the slurry on my higher grit stones so maybe this is made for more course stones. At any rate I have a real Japanese natural stone that I use all the time. Only problem is that it is getting very small. Hopefully this will improve with wear

Somewhat expensive, but is probably going to last a very long time. Worked great on my 6000 grit whetstone. Have used it a few times, and haven't had any issues. **** Do not buy this if you're trying to flatten a coarser whetstone! Tried it on my 1000 grit with the pencil method, and it didn't flatten at all. As the description states, you should probably use this for 6000+ ***

The product pictured is NOT the product you will receive. The product you will receive is the YELLOW King 8000 nagura. I own a King, and used it on my white Togihara, and the King stained it. I ordered this, mistakenly assuming that the white nagura pictured would be the one I'd receive. On a positive note, getting a return shipping label took less than 5 minutes.

This is an excellent pre-polisher cleaning nagura .what I mean is,if you have pre-polisher level stones that load with swarf,or need light leveling, then this nagura is my own choice. It leaves a fine,clean surface on my 2k to 6k grit waterstones, and allows me to achieve a higher quality of apex for straight razor honing ,or even fine knife edges. Regards -CAM-

the clean function is great and it can always restore my shapton and king stones surface. maybe i love it too much, after 5-6 times sharpening, my beloved nagura is very thin now.

とても質の良い名倉砥石です。 浅葱の天然砥石などなかなか泥が出ない砥石に使うとしっとりとした切れ味になります。 高い名倉もいいけれどこのくらいでも充分役に立ちます。 これのみで刃物を研ぐことは出来ません、念の為。

合わせ砥石と一緒に購入しました。 合わせ砥石を使う際の必需品ですね。

人工砥石に泥だし最高で天然石の風合いが出ます❗