Quote Originally Posted by Magpie View Post
I have only a few occasions to discuss directly with people who finish on coticules, and one of the things that I think prove your point, is how many of them will go to the coticle after a 10 or 12k stone, but start with slurry. I know from my OWN experience, I am not so good using them with slurry, but with straight water as a final finish, I do just fine. I suspect many people are in the same boat as me, and simply lack the experience to get the full potential, and likely screw up by undoing what they already have accomplished on synthetics
My point exactly. Slurry after 10/12k (maybe even 8k) doesn't make much sense to me, as the sharpening (final honing, even) would be pretty much done and slurry would undo a large part of that.

It's still mostly conjecture on my part to be honest though, as most people don't tend to write how they finish on a coticule when they mention that they do.