--- product_id: 48361121 title: "Shapton Ha No Kuromaku Ceramic Whetstone Medium Grit #1000" brand: "shapton" price: "€ 101.51" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 category: "Shapton" url: https://www.desertcart.sk/products/48361121-shapton-ha-no-kuromaku-ceramic-whetstone-medium-grit-1000 store_origin: SK region: Slovakia --- # Compact 8.3x2.8x0.6 inch size Durable Black Shade Series design 1000 grit ceramic precision Shapton Ha No Kuromaku Ceramic Whetstone Medium Grit #1000 **Brand:** shapton **Price:** € 101.51 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🖤 Sharpen like a pro, stay sharp like a boss. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Shapton Ha No Kuromaku Ceramic Whetstone Medium Grit #1000 by shapton - **How much does it cost?** € 101.51 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sk](https://www.desertcart.sk/products/48361121-shapton-ha-no-kuromaku-ceramic-whetstone-medium-grit-1000) ## Best For - shapton enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted shapton brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Medium Grit Mastery:** Perfect balance for rough and medium sharpening, ideal for maintaining and repairing edges. - • **Smart Water Stone Design:** Porous ceramic requires soaking and splash lubrication for optimal performance and longevity. - • **Protective & Practical Case:** Sturdy, non-slip base with drainage-friendly lid keeps your stone safe and ready to use anywhere. - • **All-in-One Sharpening Solution:** Use alone or with minimal stropping for razor-sharp edges—no need for multiple stones. - • **Precision Ceramic Craftsmanship:** Uniform grit with no lumps ensures consistent sharpening and smooth tactile feedback. ## Overview The Shapton Ha No Kuromaku Ceramic Whetstone #1000 is a premium medium grit sharpening stone from Japan’s Black Shade Series. Measuring a compact 8.3 x 2.8 x 0.6 inches, it offers consistent, uniform ceramic grit that excels at maintaining and repairing knife edges with smooth tactile feedback. Designed for professionals and enthusiasts alike, it requires soaking and splash lubrication for peak performance and comes with a durable, non-slip case that doubles as a practical holder. Highly rated and trusted, it’s the go-to single stone solution for achieving razor-sharp knives with minimal fuss. ## Description The Black Shade Series is a whetstone that subdivides the whetstone depending on the type and material of the blade, and pursues the grinding power, sharpening feel, and finish of each blade. Review: An excellent medium-fine water stone, this and one or two strops are all you need for a good edge. - As others have observed, the grading of 1000 is probably a little high, it might be more like 800, it's definitely a medium stone rather than a fine one. Whilst you can use it to reprofile an edge, it will take a while, this stone excels at repairing and maintaing an already profiled knife. It's a very high quality stone, its consitency is uniform, there are no grit lumps (giving rise to pimples) and the wear in consistent over the whole surface. It is of one grade throughout, both sides cut the same. It's easy to use, do fully read the enclosed instructions though since some online videos are incorrect, it's not just a "splash and go" stone, it's porous throughout and requires an initial soaking period especially if it has been left to dry out. You also need to regularly splash as you sharpen to both lubricate and remove slurry. It's not as convenient as a dry diamond stone but it's a fraction of the price. In practice using it with a small towel around it is fine, once it has been soaked you only need a teaspoon of water every so often to keep the surface lubricated and clean. The case is nicely designed as well, it is sturdy and clicks closed positively so that even if you do the unspeakable and drop the stone in the closed box it should still be protected from fracture. There are four non-slip rubber button feet on the underside and a four-sided fence on the lid which retains the stone perfectly whilst allowing water and slurry to drain from the gaps in each corner. This means you don't need to buy or make a custom stone holder, the case does a perfectly adequate job for most people. The whetstone has a very nice smooth grind feel when sharpening, you can easily gauge from the drag how much metal you are removing, the tactile feedback from the stone is excellent. Unlike diamond stones this stone will wear and depending on your usage and technique/proficiency you will need to periodically flatten it which requires investing in a separate flattening stone, but it's well worth it and if you use and maintain this whetstone properly it will give you many years of faultless service and hundreds of sharp knives. Whilst you can buy a finer grade stone to finish on, you don't have to. The orange Kuromaku is a good enough compromise that you can use it to both shapen and finish needing only one or two leather strops with diamond paste to raise a knife to a razor edge (dependent on the knife of course). Overall this is an excellent quality stone, I'm very pleased with it and I also believe that it represents excellent value for money since you can just about get away with just the one expensive whetstone plus one flattening stone and a few rawhide strops. (You can do major reprofiling using those cheap diamond stones first.) As a novice I watched many online tutorials before purchase and I went with the consensus of opinion that this was an excellent value one-stone sharpening solution and after using it successfully (I sharpen all my friend's knives for practice) I concur with them all. If I buy an additional whetstone it will be probably be another Shapton. Review: Good, even excellent - This is a good, even excellent, whetstone. For, it does the job, gives reasonable feedback (i.e. one can feel what one is doing), does not have any problem with slurry, and it does not seem to wear especially fast. I have used it with success on low-carbon knives and medium-carbon knives. I have not tested it on any very high carbon knife, though I imagine that it would work on such a knife. Other reviews here say that it does. The price is pretty good. I add the following (and in so doing I echo somewhat one of the other reviews). This remark of mine will concern medium or high-carbon knives, i.e. hard knives. If one is changing the angle of such a knife, and/or perhaps is the knife is really blunt, then one needs a coarse stone, like this one. For, under those conditions, using a less coarse stone makes it hard to get the knife sharp. (Still, what counts as less coarse? Perhaps 400 grit and above. Certainly 800 grit and above. But I'm talking about standard synthetic stones here. Matters might be different with diamond stones. As to natural stones, some of them are very hard, but at least most such stones will have a grit north of two thousand, which, for the sort of work at issue, will take forever.) I would not try to use the whetstone atop its box - as shown in one of the photographs provided by the seller. I imagine that that would work badly. One needs a proper whetstone holder. For _storing_ the stone, the box is fine, though I prefer the Naniwa boxes. (Incidentally: to my knowledge, Naniwa does not do a stone in the 300-400 grit range, at least not within its more serious lines of stones.) ## Features - Features: A #1000 medium whetstone with a blade that is good enough to be used as a rough or medium sharpener - Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 2.8 x 0.6 inches (210 x 70 - Item Number: K0702 - Grit size: #1000 - Brand: Shapton ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B001TPFT0G | | Best Sellers Rank | 20,967 in Home & Kitchen ( See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen ) 18 in Manual Knife Sharpeners | | Brand | Shapton | | Brand Name | Shapton | | Colour | Black | | Country Of Origin | Japan | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 9,701 Reviews | | Global Trade Identification Number | 04944509307023 | | Grit Type | Medium | | Grit type | Medium | | Included Components | No | | Item Dimensions L x W x H | 21L x 7W x 1.5H centimetres | | Item Type Name | Whetstone | | Item Weight | 45 Grams | | Item weight | 45 Grams | | Manufacturer | Shapton | | Manufacturer Part Number | 3-0222-0104 | | Material | Ceramic | | Material Type | Ceramic | | Model Number | 3-0222-0104 | | Number of Items | 1 | | Product dimensions | 21L x 7W x 1.5H centimetres | | Unit Count | 1.0 count | ## Product Details - **Brand:** Shapton - **Colour:** Black - **Grit type:** Medium - **Item weight:** 45 Grams - **Manufacturer:** Shapton - **Material:** Ceramic - **Number of Packs:** 1 - **Number of items:** 1 - **Product dimensions:** 21L x 7W x 1.5H centimetres - **Unit count:** 1.0 count ## Images ![Shapton Ha No Kuromaku Ceramic Whetstone Medium Grit #1000 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61UEZ5FHAzL.jpg) ![Shapton Ha No Kuromaku Ceramic Whetstone Medium Grit #1000 - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61BAa6arkWL.jpg) ![Shapton Ha No Kuromaku Ceramic Whetstone Medium Grit #1000 - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61uXi6xdXKL.jpg) ![Shapton Ha No Kuromaku Ceramic Whetstone Medium Grit #1000 - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51krrV+yfYL.jpg) ![Shapton Ha No Kuromaku Ceramic Whetstone Medium Grit #1000 - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51DxH7iO5CL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Size, Style** options. ## Questions & Answers **Q: Does it have to soak first? Or can you just spray with water prior to use?** A: Splash and go, This one (1000) grit does not require that much water. the 320 grit (blue stone) requires lots of water....it is technically a splash and go as well, but I find that it works better for me if i soak it for a short period of time....like 5 - 10 minutes. **Q: Is this "Shaputon 2000" REALLY the "Ha no Kuromaku KO703" by Shapton as depicted on your picture, or is it a different product?** A: I received a genuine Shapton product when ordered 2000 grit one. They should be the exact same performace stone as Shapton Pro range. **Q: Is this stone two sided with varying grains? The side with writing on it seems rougher.** A: Thanks for the question. This grinding wheel is one-sided. It will be combined with the medium and coarse I do not need the grindstone of Me crude to make the blade. **Q: what are the dimensions of the actual stone?** A: 2.75" x 8.25" x .6" ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An excellent medium-fine water stone, this and one or two strops are all you need for a good edge. *by S***S on 16 April 2024* As others have observed, the grading of 1000 is probably a little high, it might be more like 800, it's definitely a medium stone rather than a fine one. Whilst you can use it to reprofile an edge, it will take a while, this stone excels at repairing and maintaing an already profiled knife. It's a very high quality stone, its consitency is uniform, there are no grit lumps (giving rise to pimples) and the wear in consistent over the whole surface. It is of one grade throughout, both sides cut the same. It's easy to use, do fully read the enclosed instructions though since some online videos are incorrect, it's not just a "splash and go" stone, it's porous throughout and requires an initial soaking period especially if it has been left to dry out. You also need to regularly splash as you sharpen to both lubricate and remove slurry. It's not as convenient as a dry diamond stone but it's a fraction of the price. In practice using it with a small towel around it is fine, once it has been soaked you only need a teaspoon of water every so often to keep the surface lubricated and clean. The case is nicely designed as well, it is sturdy and clicks closed positively so that even if you do the unspeakable and drop the stone in the closed box it should still be protected from fracture. There are four non-slip rubber button feet on the underside and a four-sided fence on the lid which retains the stone perfectly whilst allowing water and slurry to drain from the gaps in each corner. This means you don't need to buy or make a custom stone holder, the case does a perfectly adequate job for most people. The whetstone has a very nice smooth grind feel when sharpening, you can easily gauge from the drag how much metal you are removing, the tactile feedback from the stone is excellent. Unlike diamond stones this stone will wear and depending on your usage and technique/proficiency you will need to periodically flatten it which requires investing in a separate flattening stone, but it's well worth it and if you use and maintain this whetstone properly it will give you many years of faultless service and hundreds of sharp knives. Whilst you can buy a finer grade stone to finish on, you don't have to. The orange Kuromaku is a good enough compromise that you can use it to both shapen and finish needing only one or two leather strops with diamond paste to raise a knife to a razor edge (dependent on the knife of course). Overall this is an excellent quality stone, I'm very pleased with it and I also believe that it represents excellent value for money since you can just about get away with just the one expensive whetstone plus one flattening stone and a few rawhide strops. (You can do major reprofiling using those cheap diamond stones first.) As a novice I watched many online tutorials before purchase and I went with the consensus of opinion that this was an excellent value one-stone sharpening solution and after using it successfully (I sharpen all my friend's knives for practice) I concur with them all. If I buy an additional whetstone it will be probably be another Shapton. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good, even excellent *by S***T on 11 May 2025* This is a good, even excellent, whetstone. For, it does the job, gives reasonable feedback (i.e. one can feel what one is doing), does not have any problem with slurry, and it does not seem to wear especially fast. I have used it with success on low-carbon knives and medium-carbon knives. I have not tested it on any very high carbon knife, though I imagine that it would work on such a knife. Other reviews here say that it does. The price is pretty good. I add the following (and in so doing I echo somewhat one of the other reviews). This remark of mine will concern medium or high-carbon knives, i.e. hard knives. If one is changing the angle of such a knife, and/or perhaps is the knife is really blunt, then one needs a coarse stone, like this one. For, under those conditions, using a less coarse stone makes it hard to get the knife sharp. (Still, what counts as less coarse? Perhaps 400 grit and above. Certainly 800 grit and above. But I'm talking about standard synthetic stones here. Matters might be different with diamond stones. As to natural stones, some of them are very hard, but at least most such stones will have a grit north of two thousand, which, for the sort of work at issue, will take forever.) I would not try to use the whetstone atop its box - as shown in one of the photographs provided by the seller. I imagine that that would work badly. One needs a proper whetstone holder. For _storing_ the stone, the box is fine, though I prefer the Naniwa boxes. (Incidentally: to my knowledge, Naniwa does not do a stone in the 300-400 grit range, at least not within its more serious lines of stones.) ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Worth the extra money for this quality whetstone... *by J***D on 10 July 2020* I have a few whetstones, ranging in grit from 250 to 8,000 and I have been previously using my 8,000 grit stone to finish off my Global Knives - none of them in the price range of Shapton, to be fair. I've become reasonable adept at sharpening them freehand and they were pretty sharp, I wouldn't say razor sharp but very sharp nevertheless. This Shapton stone, at 12,000 grit, is a different level. I used a 3,000 then an 8,000 grit stone to get a really nice sharp edge and then went to work with my new Shapton 12,000. The stone I ordered came directly from Japan and the instructions were in Japanese. However, I did a bit of research and it was recommended that you soak the stone in water for about 5 or 6 minuted prior to first use. On further uses, it's not recommended to soak the stone as it can soften the stone. For future uses, the stone should be sprayed with water on the surface prior to use. Following use, once clean of any residual dirt, it should be allowed to dry prior to being placed back in the box. The finish you get using this stone is at another level to the stones I've used before. I found the blade edge was genuinely polished and is was unbelievably sharp. This stone is quite a bit more expensive than stones I've used before but I can see why. It is far superior in quality. I would highly recommend this stone for anyone who is serious about sharpening their knives. 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