DMT WM8EF-WB 8-Inch Extra Fine/Fine DuoSharp Plus Bench Stone with Base - Grey

In my opinion DMT are the best you can get. Tried others and they didn't last. I have several of their product's and this fine/very fine stone allows me to put a razor sharp edge on my chisels, plane blades, etc. The continuous diamond allows me to sharpen my 1/8" chisels and other small items. Quality kit.

great price and quality

Requires just a little bit of practice

Certainly puts an edge on my knives Time will tell as to how long it lasts but I use it with water so that should help

Very effective sharpening system.

Great product! With help from training videos the Duo Sharp Plus has proved easy to use and incredibly effective. Thanks DMT...

The "stone" is a plastic strip covered in metal grill. It works as advertised, but my main issue with this item is the very poor quality plastic holder that comes with it. There are 2 removable plastic retainers that were delivered bent out of shape probably due to moulding issues. This is a quality control issue. I will have to permanently glue the one side in place and just hope that the other side stays working. Eventually I will need to look for an alternative method of holding the "stone" in place whilst using. I bought a cheap alternative to compare it with, and whilst the cheaper stone does not work as well as this, the method of holding it in place is far better engineered. DMT should look at a better holder if they are going to charge so much. Very disappointed overall.

Great product. Are stones acting of the past?

Comprem, será o melhor produto que já imaginaram possuir para afiar suas facas ou equipamentos. É o segundo que compro. Agora tenho às granulometrias que necessitava.

J'apprécie déjà le format poche DMT (4 références) particulièrement adapté en extérieur ou déplacement. Je me suis fait plaisir en achetant ce Duosharp DMT (fin, extra fin) vraiment stable - et surtout très grand - pour travailler confortablement et en sécurité. C'est cher, mais c'est vraiment TOP et durable en terme de qualité (garantie 25 ans). A noter, le prix vraiment intéressant sur cette référence, livraison comprise.

1) Damaged box when it is received. 2) Rusty surfaces are found in multiple parts of the product.

Very good quality. I ordered two DMT bench stones providing me with 4 grits. Easier to sharpen knives with better results than the Angle guided systems I’ve tried with less fuss. I do use a little square that has four reference angles on it with these stones when I want to set a new angle on a knife. Diamond stones also make for less mess than oil stones with a little spray of water to sharpen and soap and water clean up. Now my technique is improving by leaps and bounds the more I’m sharpening but the learning curve was a I on t the same as the angle guided system I used and now I can sharpen anything! No size restrictions. Excellent product. The base is solid too.

I own a lot of expensive knives: Kitchen and hunting. Knives that were razor sharp when new and over time they were anything but. I have tried Arkansas stones, ceramic rods, and many other sharpening systems and tools. Nothing is a good as the DMT bench. One side is red and one is green. The red takes a not sharp (but not abused) blade and hones it first. Maybe 5 to 6 passes per side. Then you move to the green to take the sharpening to a new level with 3-5 passes per side. Almost like new. A dull knife takes maybe 3 minutes to sharpen. An "almost" sharp refresh, using only the green side, takes about a minute. I can do the whole kitchen rack of 15 knives (refresh only) in 30 minutes. Success for me relied on two things: the correct angle and the correct pressure per pass. I used the recommended "lay two quarters on top of one another" in the manual to get the feel of the angle. Once I got the feel I don't use them anymore. Initially I was putting about the amount of force I used to use with sharpening stones. It was too much. Now I used just enough pressure to keep the knife on the surface (either red or green). And by that I mean almost no pressure. If you have a kitchen scale I find about 1-2 oz of pressure works best for me. Any more than that and I just hone off good steel. It seems I use less pressure each time and the diamond surface works perfectly. I expect to get even better and the knives even sharper. This sharpening system is definitely worth the price. Highly recommended. Use it for two weeks and relegate your old systems to your favorite charitable donation site. Note: I also use the DMT 12" Diamond Steel between sharpenings. (see my separate review). I use it while paring and carving AND to sharpen my serated bread knife. I can now slice warm bread again. Update 2/3/13 Tried the fine/extra fine stones on three no longer used knives. I suspect we stopped using them because they were so dull. The fine/extra fine really couldn't set a new edge (they were too far gone). So I picked up up a second stone (Extra Course (black) / Course (blue)to use with my original base. I went to work on the knives starting with the extra coarse to see if I could resurrect my lost causes. Six passes on each side first with the black and then six passes per side with the blue and a new edge was set (1 knife needed 4 more each side with the black). Now all three are in the every-other-week rotation for fine tuning edges. Maybe I could have worked at using the fine/extra fine (aka red and green) but I decided to do it right. Plus I intend to begin working on my shop tools (planes, chisels, etc) and these will get work there. Granted these are not inexpensive tools. But, both bench stones and the base set me back roughly the cost of just one of my knives: a 10" Global chef.