Quote Originally Posted by kelbro View Post
I find myself using the blue slurry stone on the blue side but seldom even work up a slurry on the yellow. Seems like a wasted intermediate step with my set of stones. Yours may be different.
I should have elaborated a bit more. I have not used my yellow slurry stone for a very long time. It sits now as simply part of my stone collection. I, like you and many others, do NOT have positive results honing an edge that is up to the yellow coticule grit level with yellow slurry (actually creating or adding additional yellow slurry with a yellow slurry stone over and above what a particular yellow coticule might create on it's own from the honing process). I use only water and also dry honing on the yellow coticules. I do NOT use a slurry stone. If I only had yellow coticules and no Belgian Blues, I would probably use generous slurry stone slurry in an attempt to bump up any "cutting" ability of the yellow rather than simply use it as a very effective polisher like I do.

Chris L