Quote Originally Posted by mkilar
.....I ended up getting an 8k and a 12k.

To make a long story short, the new stones are perfect. They're very soft, and create a sort of 'mud' as you sharpen. This is supposed to be good. Anyway, my edges are near perfection, and this is before I even strop!! For anyone interested I can provide the company's url.

Mark
Hmm, where'd you get those water stones? I have a norton 4k/8k and was thinking about getting a coticule, but I'm scared by the fact that the coticules grit vary vendor to vendor. a waterstone sounds safer.

I'm looking at a 12k range. I might try to get some really messed up ebay straights back in to shape, so I'm looking at something corser than 4k. In fact I'm wondering if it would be wise to get a slow cutting 1-2k instead of fast, so if a waterstone is slower than a norton, maybe a 1-2k waterstone is a good thing.

Did you get the rubbing stone(nagura (sp) stone) too? you rub it on the waterstone to help make that slurry.