It's a perfect first-purchase honing rod

Gokumyo should be used with water as a lubricant

It creates no heat

but you must use a thickness compensator because stock Edge Pro stones are 3 mm thick

slide guide for edge pro apex It's a perfect first-purchase honingSlide Guide gives you 2 points of contact on the knife. This improves blade stabilization and allows quicker, more repeatable blade placement. One piece extends from one edge of the blade table to the other, while the center piece slides back and forth independently and can lock into position to accommodate a wide variety of blade shapes and sizes. It works well by itself, but when combined with a magnetized blade table it makes sharpening on the Edge