Mercer Culinary 400/1000 Grit Sharpening Stone

Home chef just wants ot keep knives properly sharp. Much faster cutting than my 50 year old Boy Scout stone :-). Hopefully will last

Excellent quality, with good grit choices if you use your knives a lot. Very little effort to bring a 'hopeless' old favorite knife back to life! The 'holding tray' is non-slip and a real nice feature, and the water-use means FAR less mess than oil-soaked stones.

They make good budget knives, so I hoped for the same here and got it. The grits seem reasonably accurate, and the stone seems generally solid and well-made. I'm in the learning stages with freehand sharpening, and don't want to make all my mistakes on my best stones, so this is a good starter IMHO. There are a lot of cheapie no-name stones out there, but I figured Mercer had a reputation to protect and I think it mattered. It's a jungle out there and I doubt you'll find a stone worth owning that's cheaper. : )

I had a handheld sharpener that chewed up my knife blades, but this is sorting them out very well. Works exactly as I'd expect it. Might have to get one more block of a finer grit, but we'll see how the knives perform with just these two grits for now. Takes about 10-15 minutes per knife to get all the horrifying notches smoothed out.

Bought this for my boyfriend for Christmas this year and he absolutely loves this product. He sharpens his knife weekly just so he can use it!

For sushi knife, not bad

The whetstone itself it's good, but product came in a thin box and one of the corners was chipped. Not a deal breaker but still should mention

nice stone works great.