Norton Crystolon - probably the best budget sharpening stone!

Premise - you are a home cook, you are a DIY home repair aficionado, you are a carpenter, you are a tradesman, you are a fisherman, hunter or just regular hiker. You use cutting tools. You need them to be sharp. You do not want to spent a lot of money on sharpening equipment but you want to be able to put at least a decent edge on your tools or you want your wife stop nagging about how dull her kitchen knives are. Bottom line - you need an affordable and quality sharpening stone. This stone removes metal fast and efficiently - no matter what you put on it it will sharpen it - from soft 3Cr13MoV chinese kitchen cutlery steel along high hardness D2 tool steel up to modern powder metallurgy steels like CPM S90V. Go buy a 20 dollar 8 inch Norton crystolon combination coarse & fine oil stone. You will thank me later.