I have used the blue with light slurry and yellow with light slurry then water and i did give the the bevel stage a realy good going over and the razor has turned out real fine i was just worried about undoing previous stages as i read about slurry rounding the edge so much which realy can make me paranoid about slurry honing even though i don't see the the p[oint in have natural belgiums if you carn't use the slurry as this is how there suposed to work.i no certain honmeisters actualy shave straight of the blue and say it is as good as you will get.