Customer Reviews

Norton Waterstone, 220 grit, 1" x 3" x 8" in Blue Plastic Hinged Box

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Got this to flatten chisel faces and shape chisel and plane bevels. Well, I just flattened 9 chisels in record time. My coarse diamond stone will now be used mostly for flattening my water stones. This stone cuts very fast and very well, but goodness does it wear quickly. It makes a huge messy slurry in no time, and if you flush that it cuts very fast. The only thing is that it seems to need flattening every couple of minutes of use. Make sure you have some way to flatten it or you'll be putting curves in everything you try to shape. It's worth it for the time it saves though.

First off, I'll say this product arrived as advertised, and performed well. I can't really complain about the tool's quality or other attribute. It did what its supoosed to do.
However, I bought the stone to flatten chisels and plane irons. It worked, but the stone needed to be flattened - constantly. I used 220 grit sandpaper on a granite plate. I went through A LOT of snadpaper keeping the stone flat. Half the reason I bought the stone was to redeuce the amount of sandpaper I was blowing through. I didn't gain much in this regard.
My only other option was to buy a coarse diamond stone to flatten the waterstone. Of course, I could just use the diamond stone to flatten the tools. That said, I should have just bought a diamond stone to flatten the tools, and skipped the waterstone all together.
I can't blame the product for my failure to think this through. I'm sure this waterstone would prove useful for a lot of purposes. I don't think its the best option for what I needed to do though.

It is ok as far as cutting, but it will wear quickly and dish on you. It would be easier to use a flat plate and some SC sand paper instead.