Well, I guess I better come clean... After buying a few coticules this past winter, I recently sold all of my Shaptons. The whole set. 1k through and including the 30k stone. I sold them because it was the only way I could get my wife to agree to letting me get a Japanese finishing stone (which I haven't done yet, but that's another thread). I didn't have a problem selling the Shaptons at all; my coti's have taken over for them with no worries. Honestly, I haven't missed them. If I need to re-set a bevel on a recalcitrant blade, I use the DMT. Other than that, it's start-to-finish on a coticule.

On some of my softer blades, I go right from the coticule to the webbed fabric strop, then the latigo strop. On the medium and harder steels, I go from the coticule to chromeox or .50 diamond paste, then to .25 diamond paste, then the webbed fabric/latigo.

But lately... (and forgive the momentary thread high jack) I've been finishing on .10(that's right.. point one zero) micron lapping film. Which is why I haven't bought that Japanese finisher yet.....