With an elegant clay teapot and accessories set recently bought from Amazon, I found the teapot lid couldn’t cover completely because it was a little bigger and stuck halfway. I applied this product between the lid and the teapot opening edge, a thin layer each time and kept grinding about two hours. Finally the lid can fully cover the teapot, very close and smooth.

This paste applied really easily to a strop, and it's gotten my knifes hair popping sharp. I highly recommend this for knife sharpening, I have a bunch left over if I need to make more strops.

I forgot to order ALL the different pastes so, until then, I really can't say much, aside from that it was HIGHLY recommended!

Very good product

After four years, many, many dollars spent on top of the line pocket knives and sharpening implements, and many, many hours of practice sharpening by hand, I'm confident enough in my skills to boast that I'll take the Pepsi challenge with the edge I can get free-hand against anything a wicked edge/lansky/spyderco sharpmaker/etc. can do with contraptions that fix the angle. At the moment, I use only diamond stones, strops, and a couple very hard natural finishing stones--no water stones in my toolkit yet, which are, I'm told, both the most effective but also most demanding to use correctly. I'll begin working with them soon enough, but there's only so much time and money available to invest in this little hobby.As for my take on this diamond paste, well...I definitely did not expect the results I got. Or perhaps more accurately, I didn't expect the results to have the effects that they did. I used the 14K grit, 25% concentration diamond paste on a number of blade bevels following, firstly, a few passes on an 8000 grit, extra-extra fine DMT stone, or surgical black novoculite stone (occasionally I find a blade will finish better with one or the other for some reason), then a leather strop impregnated with white compound, and finally, on a second leather strop loaded with green compound. The diamond paste itself I smeared on a low-knap leather strop. I'm not yet neurotic enough to check my work under a microscope, but to the naked eye, the 14K grit paste gave the blade edge a nice mirror shine, as you can see on one of my Rowdy Hi-Techs in the pics.I love the look of a mirrored edge (or entire blade for that matter; I wish more knifemakers would offer them), but I was definitely surprised by how much sharper the mirrored edges were. There's probably a metallurgist or materials engineer thinking, "no kidding, genius. A finer grit = smoother finish = sharper blade," but I really thought the benefits gained by the jump from maybe 10K grit with the green stropping compound to 14K grit would be functionally cosmetic. I was very wrong: in short, when properly utilized, this stuff makes your knives sharper, and the difference is significant enough that it can be felt with just the standard three-finger test grip on the cutting edge. This is my first purchase of a diamond-infused compound, so naturally I read through the majority of the (at time of writing) 200+ reviews before buying, and though overall positive, there were complaints about the consistency of the paste being too difficult to work with for stropping knives, the concentration being perceived as lower than advertised, etc. I realize that different product batches might vary in characteristics, and that the reviews for all the individual products with variable grit levels and diamond concentrations are conglomerated, but I still find myself at something of a loss to understand the complaints. If this product were priced at 50 to 125% higher like similar products, I might rate it as "good". But considering the much lower price along with the performance, I couldn't be happier with it, and will be purchasing finer grits immediately to see if maybe I can't get a blade edge to glow.