Nowadays, we often hear people say “I can’t sharpen a knife.” or “I would buy a new one if the knife becomes dull.” Also, cooking methods are becoming easier and only require minimum cooking tools. It is reflected in the good sales of simple sharpeners. Even if people want to cook with a very sharp knife, they might think that sharpening a knife with a whetstone is complicated and difficult, or even scared of handling knives. However, to whet knives is neither difficult nor dangerous. If you have one versatile whetstone at home, you can whet not only cooking knives but also various kinds of knives and blades you have. Even from the perspective of cherishing what you use, we’d highly recommend using whetstones.“Cutting” is necessary for our daily lives. Suehiro Corporation always try to produce versatile products, which can be used by everyone from expert users to homemakers. Above all, we make our best effort to deliver the quality products, which can be used by our customers safely.
Yoshio Okumura, Representative Director
The Complete Sharpening Kit 1000/3000
The Complete Sharpening Kit 1000/3000
We have out together the Complete Sharpening Kit to help people discover the benefits of using Japanese water stones. This kit is built around your choice of Cerax combination stone, and includes our simple and effective glass lapping plate, two sheets of adhesive sandpaper and a bottle of camellia oil.
This allows the user to keep their water stone flat and true, and protect the edge of their freshly honed blades to prevent corrosion. We leave the stone choice to you - the 1000/3000 combination stone will produce a sharp edge with minimal fuss, while the 1000/6000 stone will polish that edge to a finely honed finish, though requiring more time on the stone.
Please note that the camellia oil should never be introduced to the stone or the blade during the sharpening process - only oil the blade once all sharpening has been completed.
For more detail on the kit's use, read our article.
The kit contains:
- 1x 1000/3000 combination cerax waterstone
- 1 glass plate for flattening the stone
- 2 sheets of adhesive backed sandpaper to stick to the glass
- 30ml bottle of camellia oil for treating edges to prevent rust after sharpening
Love that JTA stock a plant-based option, rather than a petro-chemical based oil. I use it for everything, hedge shears, secateurs, the clippers I use on the dog!
Bought a bottle of the Camelia oil to lubricate the secateurs that my SO absolutely loves. They do that job well but the real win has been using this oil to lubricate my electric shaver. In hindsight it’s kinda obvious that having a plant based oil on your face will be preferable to machine oil!
Fantastic. I need super honed blades for my bushcraft hobby - slicing through wood to create primitive tools. This stone does the trick for sharpening my knife. Thanks!
I use it on straight razor blades (carbon steel), on tools like knives, planes, anything with a steel blade for a protective film between uses. Highly recommend
Using the stone to sharpen chisels. The results are dangerously sharp - my thumb and A&E nurse can attest to that!
I use this for my swords and it is a nice clean oil that works well. Better than choji oil in my experience
Have used the camellia oil on my Ouchi bench chisel set. Have had them for about 29 years. They had some very faint surface oxidation. The camellia oil has dealt with the rust and turned it into an inert black spot.
Only use it once so far but very happy with the way it performed.
Great product, I use this oil to condition my jute ropes as well as protect my carbon steel blades
Excellent product for protecting valuable carbon steel and Damascus knives; an investment in corrosion prevention
Awesome stone , easy to use and results are fantastic. Customer service from JTO is second to none.
Great product, Great service, Thanks again
Excellent for using on my razor blades for storage. To keep them in pristine condition A+
Easy transaction and prompt delivery. Product arrived well packed and complete and as displayed on the site.
I have found that the camellia oil keeps the bed of my lathe looking like new and no sign of rust. I am impressed.
The Cerax water stones came extremely well packaged from Australia and are a pleasure to use with expected results. Thank you.
Excellent
What a rare joy it was to find Japanese Tools. Christian's vast knowledge and assistance far surpassed any I had ever experienced. I could not be happier with the items and the impeccable care that was taken in their packaging and prompt delivery. I feel very lucky to have stumbled upon this website and can't wait to continue to own tools that exceed my lifetime and continue to develop a story of their own.
- From a true qualitarian to another.
Would highly recommend.
I bought a whetstone from this company. Shipping was quick. And the product itself is beautiful, durable and very reasonable priced. Thank you for quality product
Awesome product fast shipping will buy from again
Stone sharpening for knives is the only way to go, as a carpenter, I knew this for my chisels, same applies to Knives.
Site is easy to use, The product shipped quickly, and is exactly what was advertised. Good experience.
Very happy with the stone, my knives have never been more happy!
Excellent. Better than my other stones. Very happy with the stone and it's prompt delivery.
Good product
Sharpened my knives up quick and easy!!
Great communicators! Great service.
Used to touch up my Global kitchen knife, and some of my finer edged hunting knives easily and with success. Fast delivery, great service with email replies
As a first-timer to Japanese water stone sharpening, this Cerax combination stone has been a perfect starting place and ice been able to get an amazing edge on all of my knives, with a little help from the sharpening tips on the website. The whole process from ordering to delivery was exceptional and I'll definitely be back in the future!
Firstly, I am new to waterstones. However, I bought a #320 and the #1000/#3000 and #1000/#6000 Ceraxes for what I felt was a complete sharpening package with a double up on the #1000 as I felt this would get the most use. I was not disappointed.
The #1000 does a great job of ensuring a razor sharp edge, with the #3000 providing a fine honed/polished for all knife needs.
good for fine sharpening, I like it.
The products I ordered were delivered quickly and in good condition. Information on order status was sent at each stage. Definitely purchase from them again.