Sharp Pebble Sharpening Stones for Wood Carving Tools-Two Whetstones Grit 400 & 1000 Gouge Sharpener- Waterstone Sharpening System for Wood Carving Knives & Chisels with Non-Slip Bamboo Base

Arrived on time and in good shape. Well made and very useful, especially for small gouges. the range of grits is excellent

It works beautifully. My wood carving knives are nice and sharp

This is a well made set, with some limitations. The stones seem good quality. They have a slightly rough surface finish from manufacturing, which quickly wears into a moderately aggressive stone which seems to wear slowly and provides decent feedback. Use a light touch and keep wetting. Most of these opinions were formed using the back of the stones to sharpen carving tools and X-Acto style blades. With care and a little stropping on leather afterward, one can easily restore the tip of an X-Acto #11 to factory and the edge to better than factory. Given the price of these blades, one could make a case that this set would pay for itself just fixing your X-Acto and utility blades. On gouges and vieners, you're going to need a good set of slip stones to remove the burr form the inside, as this set has only one real convex profile which has a flat top on it, and it's not deep enough to fit many gouge profiles. The four concave grooves fit smaller size gouges well enough, but you will find yourself using the "hip rock" method on your larger gouges with the back of the stone. (See Mary May's gouge sharpening video for details on this technique). While this is a well made neat little set, it's far from a carving tool sharpening "solution", and you might be better off with a pair of the Sharp Pebble flat stones. The stones themselves seem quite good for "budget" stones. Grit is on the kit is a tad coarse side for maintenance sharpening, with both stones feeling a little coarser than rated. The red 400 is more than aggressive enough for minor re-profiling and nick repair, while the Blue 1000 is more like a universal 800, but does a decent job getting you to a refineable edge if you lighten up on pressure and 'step down' your stroke direction to finish. For many applications, it will be adequate by itself, but if you want your Sloyd knife or carving chisels "shaving sharp", you'll want at least a leather strop with green compound, and possibly a 5000+ grit polishing stone to compliment this little kit. All up, it's a good starter kit for smaller tools or hobby knife work, it would pair well with the X-Acto lino carving set or similar small sized tools. If you have a new set of carving chisels, I'd have to say to buy similar flat stones, and for gouge work, a set of slip stones. (and a strop, which is a given for carving tools of any kind) I'm afraid that'll cost you more, but it's about the only practical way to keep your expensive carving chisels at their best. Final word: Worth the money, but it's not an All in one carving tool sharpening solution.

Seem to be good quality. The base is decently constructed, not a hard wood, but that wasn't expected. The stones themselves sit in a rubber footing to secure them to the wood base. Swapping them out is fairly straightforward. Fitment is snug enough to do the job of giving your hand a place to anchor to if needed to stabilize your stroke. Overall I'm satisfied. Will update once I've had a need to use them, which ought to be relatively soon as I'm awaiting a Flintlock kit. I'm space limited where I'll be working on this kit so this fit the bill for the required space it'll take up when I'm not using them.

Course and fine grits does a good job on my carving chisels

Excellent product

I can't do any of my carving chisels I use all the time . It's just for the tiny carvers. So if was really disappointed about that. Yes they work well with the tiny ones bit not my main tools in which I use all the time. Do you make a large version for our large chisels that are curved ect.?

great

Really nice! Set comes with the two stone pads and wood holder, each stone also has a plastic protector on the bottom, that fit the wood holder and they stay in place. Package foam insert also is nice to set in tool drawer to safely hold everything . Was a bit concerned after receiving that the stone contours were not as pronounced as in pictures but after trying all my chisels match up well. Well worth the cost!

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Very fast delivery and great quality set of hard to find stones

Justo como pensaba.

Very good value, solid product