Have long the Internet up and down gessucht until I have decided on this stone. Yesterday was a good piece, soon as you're used Amazon. The grain size of the stones is on the front side of the label. (Pretty much the only thing you can not as a Japanese could Santander, read.) A tutorial on how it is to make, can be found quickly on the Internet. Patience you have to have if you, like me makes a very dull knife ago. The result was surprisingly good. The first knife, which cut only by its own weight and the cutting motion a tomato. Just great!