• I suspect none existent but when he likes something he gets very into it so I’m thinking some sharpening kit to go with it and I’m sure he’ll do a lot of research and learning on his own.

    Are a couple different grades of sharpening stones the way to go?
    Don’t know anything about this sort of thing myself

  • Recently moved to Shapton stones, great results so far.

    Was fine with just the the orange (1000 coarse) and purple (5000, finishing), but if you can stretch it's also worth while getting something intermediary (~2000 or thereabouts).

    Was told not to really bother with anything much finer than that, but they also do 8k, 12k and 30k stones, etc.

    The boxes are pretty nice in all their colours (but plastic) if you're into that BUT they do double as pretty functional stone holders if you lack that, and they stack so you can keep them on the kitchen top or shelf so anyone who visits will undoubtedly notice what a cool knife guy you are.