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what I call sawmarks might actually be marks from the flattening device the use, they are realy shallow and on a soft coti they are whiped of using the slurry stone without much effort

I have two,...

the absolute contact area is small, that's a given, if only a fraction of this area is actually in contact the force is devided over an even smaller area, and so, your pressure [Newton / meters...

I know they don't need to break in like a translucent arkensa, it's more like getting to know the hone, experience the difference when using some pressure and/or some slurry.

about the sawmarks I...

where did you get the coticule? it probably still has the sawing marks on the stone, you might want to get rid of that, getting those sawmark of the honing surface might be hard or easy depending on...