Description
Dr. Marv’s Scientific Benchstones
Let me make one thing perfectly clear: If you haven’t ordered a 1×6″ stone set from me previously, I’ll cancel your order. I did not set out to make benchstones, and I also don’t advertise that you should use my abrasives freehand. Nevertheless, a couple of customers have done it, and love the result. Because of these requests, I now offer:
- Custom Order – Dr. Marv’s Scientific Benchstones
- Stone Size: 200 x 80 mm, Base thickness can be customized between 10 and 20 mm.
- Thickness of the abrasive: At least 4 mm
- Concentration of the superabrasive: min. 50% of weight
- Contamination free, factory dressed and ready to use.
- Orders are custom made and shipped within 2-3 weeks. I will get in touch via email to confirm grain size and thickness.
- Possible Grain sizes:
- Diamond, 80 / 60 / 40 / 20 / 10 / 5 / 2.5 µm
Comes in a nice storage box. No returns as it is a custom made product.
Feedback is very slick – but if you own one of my stone sets, you know that. It is super homogenous, so while you probably will have to adapt your freehand sharpening technique, the results are worth having an open mind!
Resin used is the “harder” type, which is also used for the coarse 1×6″ stones.
As this is a handmade product, some small blemishes such as tiny bubbles, scratches or imperfections are to be expected. I can promise that they do not subtract from the performance of the sharpening stones!
Please note that you are responsible for any import duties, taxes or custom fees that are arising. Delivery Incoterms are DAP. Customer is responsible for Import Duties, Taxes, Fees.
Lynn Hunton (verified owner) –
Wow, when I thought it couldn’t get any better, Dr. Marv agreed to produce some bench stones. I have an 80µm, 60µm, 40µm and 20µm stones. They are spectacular. They exhibit all the characteristics of the 1×6 stones in a bench stone format. The slippery feedback won’t be to everyone’s liking but these high diamond concentration stones cut like no others, shed the swarf with a drip or two of oil and produce a surface that has to be experienced to be believed. I encourage you to look at the photos available on the blog. The deep scratches so prevalent with other stones, whether EP diamond plates or resin bonded vitreous stones just aren’t there. I believe the meticulous care Dr Marv takes for purity of the diamonds/CBN, the lack of any other particles in the resin binder and the manufacturing process gives this result. You really have to experience these stones, they have worked miracles on my Magnacut, MagnaMax mule, Maxamet, ZDP189, White 1 & 2, Hap40 & Rex121 Nakiri’s and Gyutos, and all my hard & soft steel Spyderco & other folders. Plus, because they cut the steel vice push it at a microscopic level they work equal wonders on softer stainless and carbon steels minimizing the traditionally troublesome burrs. They provide a new level of burr suppression and sharpening performance on the complete gamut of steels you can encounter. Get’em while they are hot.