Quote Originally Posted by justinA View Post
What live been honing on has been a norton 1k for bevel setting then a BBW/coti finishing on a LM.

I bought 2/5/8k shapton pro stones for my knives at work and they are really fast by comparison to the nortons I used to use for my knives, the 5k probably removes metal faster than my 1k norton, it will be covered in metal in a matter of 20 seconds with light pressure.

I was thinking in bevel setting your doing 95% of the metal removal you do in a honing session, so why would I even use my 1k norton when my 2k shapton will in theory get the job done 10 times faster with less strokes to potentially mess up.
+1 on gssixgun's comment.
A while back he commented that shapton hones "just work" no fuss....

I think you will find that:
The 2/5/8 sequence will get you a very good strop ready edge.
Adjusting that edge with a coti and finishing on a LM or any other
finisher is simply a matter of shave test discovered preferences.

The shapton hones are used by a number of folk here and their results are
reported to be as good as any.