Quote Originally Posted by Suile View Post
One of the very early stone buys was the Chinese stone. At first I didn't like it but I tried to using It with oil.
And it's so much better then water as it gets no slurry dulling the edge.

My two cents it's cheap see what it sharpening like with oil. A thicker oil for a finer edge and a thinner oil for less fine and faster cutting.
I use oil on mine too. Works better for me as well. Thing that sucks about the oil though is, you (well I anyway lol) have to make sure you have all your other stones put away so you don't contaminate them. That and you need to wash the blade off with soap before putting it anywhere near a strop. Not the end of the world or anything - it's the same with my Arks, but its something you really needn't forget .