Going back to the subject line, we are supposed to be talking about oil on waterstones, right? Not coticules, correct? I got a little caught up in things there and the realized the subject line and felt i was getting off-topic.
Somehow "waterstone" was equated to coticule early on in this thread. Why? I admit to only honing for a year (two?) but it seems rather like jumping to a predetermined conclusion, to be determined wrong.