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Maintenance Kit

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$29.5 $59 In stock

Category: Gifts Under 75 USD

When your garden tools start losing their edge, restore the quality of the blades with Niwaki's handy Maintenance Kit. The kit includes three Japanese whetstones expertly crafted in Osaka with high-grade aluminum oxide.

  • A #220 coarse, grinding stone for rough blades.
  • A #1000 sharpening stone for regular sharpening.
  • A #3000 honing stone for more detailed work.

All stones are small enough to access tight spaces and maintain just about every edged blade. Before use, soak the stones thoroughly, then use the concave side to work on hand pruners and curved blades, and the flat side for shears and other straight blades. Handle with care to avoid dropping.

Concave bottom of the stones is ideal for the curve of secateurs blades, and the flat edges are ideal for snips and clippers longer straight blades. 

Customer Reviews (4.8 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Timothy ★★★★★

My secateurs had gotten so dull they were crushing stems instead of cutting them, and the three whetstones in this kit brought the edge back in maybe ten minutes. The Osaka-made stones feel dense and don't dish out quickly like the cheap ones I've burned through before.

Lily Y. ★★★★★

Bought this to bring my pruning shears and hori-hori back to life and the three Osaka whetstones make it stupidly easy to get a proper edge back. The coarse one took a nick out of the blade in a few passes, then the finer stones polished it up nicely.

Nicholas L. ★★★★★

The two finer stones in this kit are perfect for a quick touch-up between sharpening sessions. My old blades had a decent edge again after just a few passes, which is way easier than I expected.