Mine cuts pretty fast, much faster than the other three 1K hone that I have. I most often start with a very light slurry, either from cleaning it with a diamond plate or from the brown cleaning hone. I use the slurry from the presoaked brown hone to drop the grit so to speak, when I have a lot of steel to remove. The other thing I like about my Chosera is that mer the end of the bevel set, when it is mildly loaded with scarf, and I lighten my strokes up, it really reduces the depth of the scratches and makes the next hone than much quicker. It is also very quick to clean with either a very fine diamond plate or the little brown turd.