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Actually I think that we are in agreement, I just did not express myself as clearly as I should have with my quickly typed comment (I was at work and should not have been typing in a shaving forum...

Don't worry about the slurry rounding the edge, in my experience it won't do so. In my view the slurry just makes the stone a little more aggressive. A belgian blue used with slurry certainly leaves...

Gary,

I presume with 4K and 8K, you're talking about the Norton.
You can go Norton 4K, Blue with slurry, Coticule with water.
You can also go: Norton 4K, Norton 8K, Coticule with water.
I...

In practice from my experience it really should not matter if you use slurry on the Blue or not. I have consistently got great edges from the progression with slurry and without slurry on the blue,...