The Veritas Stone Pond® is a complete system for storing, using and maintaining water stones up to 300mm long. Stones can be stored, ready for use, in a stand that also clamps them and provides a base for lapping. The twin clamping system holds both coarse and fine stones at the same time and the quick-action cam clamps are fully adjustable.

There is ample space for three or more bench stones. Stones are kept clean and evaporation is minimised. The clamp hardware is made of stainless steel, anodised aluminium and glass-reinforced plastic. The tough, rigid ABS case has high friction base strips for non-slip use.

The lapping system is a glass plate, a sheet of PSA-backed plastic laminate and 90x silicon carbide. The safety glass top is guaranteed to be flat enough to allow you to lap a stone to a flatness better than .02mm per centimetre over individual stone length.

You can put your coarse stone (800, 1000 or 1200 grit) in the water and leave your wooden-based finishing stone (4000 or 8000 grit) clamped on a bar. For stones sitting in the water, ribs on the bottom of the box bottom keep them clear of any sludge. The clamping and lapping part of the system can be used equally well with oil stones. This is a fast, clean, dependable system for use with all of your bench water stones. Weight: 2.1kg.