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10 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Very Nice Finishing Stone Jun 10, 2010
By J. O'Neil
I purchased this sapphire stone after reading some of the other reviews on the net. It does put a extremely nice, factory looking, finish on the blade that wasn't possible with the yellow "very fine" stone that comes with the deluxe kit. The only down side, and it seems like this is the case with the yellow stone as well, is that it needs to be cleaned after very few strokes. If putting the finishing touches on a blade much larger than 6", it will take a while. I also noticed that if you are sharpening a blade that is coated black or gray, it needs to be cleaned even more ofter. If you are patient go ahead and get it as it is worth the money, if your aren't I'd say skip it.
11 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 Doesn't work as advertised! Jun 20, 2011
By Corey
I am not going to tell you that it isn't worth buying, and I'll get to the reason why later.
First I am going to tell you that this thing DOES NOT polish as well as the yellow Ultra Fine Stone. It leaves a nice looking edge, but the yellow one makes it shiny like a mirror! In that sense alone this product fails. It's advertised as a "Polishing Hone." It just doesn't do it.
Now, for the ironic part. You should consider buying it.
If you use this hone either after the blue Fine Stone, or in place of it, it leaves your knife CRAZY SHARP! It works up a burr better than the Fine Stone(and maybe even the Medium Stone) can. I can't get an edge like that with the Deluxe system alone, no matter how hard I try. What I do is sharpen like normal, then use the Sapphire to put the final edge on, then I use the yellow Ultra Fine to polish the knife to a mirror finish, being careful not to ruin the edge that the sapphire makes.
I'm still really disappointed with this product, I was expecting it to polish even better than the yellow stone. When it didn't work right I emailed Lansky thinking it was a defect. They had me send it to them and they sent a replacement. The replacement was the same. I emailed them again to let them know that I had the same problem with the new one and they still tried to fix it.
I have to give this company a lot of credit, I don't want to go into details about what they have done to try to make this right, but it's safe to say that they have REALLY gone out of their way to try to make me a happy customer. I would have to say that Lansky's customer service is the best around, they have really been a pleasure to deal with. And I would recommend most of their products without hesitation.
7 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent finishing stone - has more bite than the Ultra-Fine. Jan 02, 2009
By Joshua G. Feldman
"Technophile"
Lansky bills the Super Sapphire as the ultimate finishing stone for the Lansky system and I'm not going to disagree. I find that the super sapphire has a bit of a granular feel, with more bite than the pink fine or white ultra fine stones. It feels like it removes more metal than either of those, I get a robust burr pretty quickly - but the edge produced is blamelessly sharp. I've had it for a month now and always use it after the pink fine stone and marvel at how well and quickly it raises a burr compared to the pink or white stones. I find that a bit mystifying given that the grit is finer. Maybe the super sapphire is finer grit but softer? In any case it's an awesome finishing stone. My knives have a razor-like finish.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Scratches the blade Feb 16, 2012
By GFED
I've had the same problem as well. The blue sapphire stone doesn't polish the blade as advertised. If used after the yellow extra fine stone it actually scratches the blade.
4 of 6 found the following review helpful:
A Litte Perplexed Dec 01, 2010
By cutter
I own the 5 hone system which came with the 1000 grit white stone. This stone sapphire does NOT give me a better finish than the 1000 grit stone that came with the system. So IMHO the sapphire stone is the stone you should use BEFORE you step up to the yellow 1000 grit stone. I think lansky is a bit backwards when it comes to their claims of this stone..
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