So I've recently gotten a couple stones and delved into honing. What I have is a coticule and a Zulu grey. So far, I've done two of my razors on the coticule with the unicot method, and both have given me amazingly comfortable BBS shaves with minor irritation.

With my Zulu, I've taken one of those razors that I did on the coticule, and tried it out. I used a very light (cloudy water) slurry, slowing diluting to clear weather on the Zulu, and now the razor seems to be pulling and not giving a very close shave. With the slurry, I did about 20 laps at a time, then diluted about 2-3 drops of water until clear...so probably 80 laps or so. Then I rinsed the Zulu and used just clear water for probably 50 more.

I also looked at the edges after the coticule to after the Zulu, and didn't really notice much difference. If anything, it looks like the Zulu May have degraded the edge a bit. It looks a little less smooth on the bevel, and the edge looks slightly serrated. This is at 100x magnification.

Any ideas what I could be doing wrong with the Zulu? Slurry problem, etc.? Should I instead of using slurry be using clear water only?

Thanks