“Absolutely fantastic stone, outstanding for it's price! 100% Splash&Go, water stays on surface even after 5-7 minutes. Feedback for correct angle and polish is "done" is superb, you can feel the steel getting sucked on the stone surface.
It has at least 6000 JIS, either it's little slow in terms of cutting speed or it's little finer, compared to a Shapton Pro 8000, JNS Matukusuyama 6000 or Ikyu Shin Nagura 6000, just to name few stones in same grit range I did compare to over few days or weeks.
The surface while sharpening is absolutely fantastic, not too soft or silky, not any near hard like a brick. It doesn't load up at all, any metal can be washed down with water or wiped with a finger.
The scratch pattern after sharpening is super smooth, without microscope usage you could say little shiny even, at least like from a Shapton Pro 8k. Perfect finishing for a carbon knife like Aogami2 etc.
Most stones in this grit range have a downside. Either loads up, feedback is bad, isn't splash&go or is horrible slow. This one might work little slower than others but the superb feedback, no loadup and 100% splash&go makes it shine as best stone from this series and gets my absolute recommendation in this grit range, better than a Arashiyama 6000 to my mind.”
