Cool video Jeff. Debado stones are underrated. I love Zdp 189 for kitchen knives. It's like really hard blue steel that's stainless and has 10x the edge retention. The cool thing about Zdp 189 is that it's by far the easiest steel to machine, grind, sharpen and polish for the level of abrasion resistance it has. The stuff holds an edge like 10v but it sharpens more like VG10. No special abrasives like diamonds needed. It's 1/3 chromium carbide. Takes a mirror polish incredibly well and quite easily. The friable stones like that in Japan they say you're supposed to finish with edge trailing and the friability basically pulls the burrs off. Seems to work but it's all personal preference, many ways to skin the cat.

Glad you’re back to posting, Jef. Love learning from your videos. Keep em coming

Great Veideo! I'm picking up my bench stones again. Most of my sharpening has been done on a TSPROF K03. I like to sharpen. This is another tool in my kit. Thank you for the video! 😎👍

Zdp is an incredibly fun steel to sharpen and work with. I have always really loved sharpening seki done zdp189 its such a responsive steel and really is lovely on super vitrified diamond stones.

It took longer to flatten the the 1500 than it takes to flatten a venev 1200 ocb. As you’ve pointed out in other vidya, the higher grit venevs take much longer. I was utterly shocked how long it took to remove graphite marks on the 1500 debado. 20cv didn’t do much better than zdp on these stones. I figured and hoped that magnacut would sharpen a little better than zdp on these. I’ve had good luck sharpening magnacut on even shapton pro stones. ZDP and silicon carbide seem to be a match made in heaven.

Jef really good video as always. I appreciate all the time spent making them and thanks for sharing brother 👊🏼

“Hopefully, that’s not damaging the stone.” Brother, you could beat these things on the counter and the owner wouldn’t care. lol. I guarantee it. I’m ready for the sharp worx vidyas! Lol great job, as always!

Enjoyed the video, thanks for posting.

Looks good as always. Im really loving magnacut in my knives both kitchen and outdoors

Late night vid!!! Love it keep em coming

nice video😊

Good as usual

Can Sharpen with shapton kuramako

The Suehiro Debado LD-21-DN (or LD-21 if you want the base) is the best non-diamond coarse stone on the market today. Debado SNE and MD series are obsolete and pointless, don't waste your time. Debado LD-101 skip it (better stones in the 800 - 1200 grit range). Debado LD-601 good but expensive, plenty of competition in this grit range (4000 - 6000).