Welcome to the Wicked Edge forum microsharp.
I have used Shapton’s “splash and go” whetstones for years. Not these brands you mentioned. I was in fact, just discussing purchasing a set of the Suehiro Brand Whetstones cut and mounted on W.E. paddles yesterday, from my Wicked Edge whetstone vendor. I have no experience with the Suehiro brand. I regularly use the Shapton Kuromaku Pro Stones and the coveted, (no longer available for W.E.), Shapton Glass Stones. I love the results I achieve using them but it is more work and takes more time.
You need to be aware there are fake whetstones being sold.
I don’t use the whetstones as an add-in grit in my sharpening progressions mixed with other W.E. sharpening stone mediums. I use the “splash and go” stones as a full progression alone, from coarse to fine all by them selves. They allow me to sharpen the hardest steels well without chipping out or loosing the edge. Whereas, other stones like diamond stones and ceramics won’t touch these hard steels or just busts off the apex.
The whetstones are consumable. That is they wear with use. They dish towards the stone centers and need maintenance with lapping stones or lapping plates to level and smooth them.
Because these stones are non magnetic I use a non-magnetic stone adapter made by forum member “airscapes” to allow me to use my magnetic angle cube with these to set my guide rod angles.
I work with a dish towel spread across my W.E. under my guide rods and vise so when I spritz the whetstones it absorbs the excess mist.
The whetstones I use are a man-made composites. Their grits are very consistent through-out the stone so as they wear the scratch pattern stays the same. The depth and the spacing between the scratch patterns are also very consistent in these synthetic stones. There are no odd or stray depth scratches with these stones. They provide nicely sharpened and polished knife edges when used properly with good W.E. technique and proper attention to detail.
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