Thread: Slurry! Yes or No ?

Slurry to remove metal, it's fresh abrasive.

No slurry to refine the edge.

Your choice. If you get an edge you're comfortable shaving with using light slurry, then you can finish that way, but you'll find that a lot of stones have abrasive particles too large to do that as easily as you can just polish the edge on clear water and get a very keen feel.

See the pictures from the wiki for a couple of stones where a slurry and no slurry comparison is done, especially with the chinese and coticule stones:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/srpwi..._various_hones