Gesshin 100 XL Stone Fixer

Product Description Detailed Specs Measurements Stone fixers are a very important part of the sharpening process.  Keeping one's stone flat helps with angle consistency, and is absolutely crucial when working on wide bevel and single bevel knives.  Though I often use diamond stone fixers, I wanted to have an alternative for those who don't like to use diamond.  Some of the downsides of diamond flattening stones are that they tend to be smaller in size (sometimes smaller than the stones they are flattening) and that they tend to wear more quickly on coarse stones.  This addresses both of those issues.  Though it isn't quite as fast as a diamond stone, this one is pretty close.  However, it works great on really coarse stones and, as I was happy to find out, on specific types of diamond stones that I like to use (for example our 1000 and 6000 stones, as well as the 800 grit vitrified diamond stone I use every day).   Both sides of this flattening stone can be used.  The side with gro