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No Sham, I would consider that two stones also, much like I don't call a Norton 4/8 or a Naniwa 3/8 "One Stone" which honestly are probably the best recommendations to learn honing on :)

Tok my advice to you is the exact same as you gave, only just a bit different direction...

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So again I ask would or would not that be true for most every single stone mentioned above????

To maintain a razor one simply needs "one high enough grit stone" if, as you stated, one has enough...

So what your saying, is with a 1k synthetic and a Coticule, then one Coticule is enough?????

Hmmmmm yeah I think that qualifies as two stones....which is exactly what we said above... whether you...

I don't think we disagree at all Alan,, :) I guess I didn't take it too just a middle grit range stone... Although I am seeing more and more posts like yours that are talking about an Escher,...

If you were to actually read the "What Hone do I Need" article in the Wiki and around the forum you would see the first piece of advice is take about 6 months before you start looking at hones to...

That is just a myth my friend, you can do the exact same thing on just about any stone that you can shave comfortably off of....and almost every one that you listed

In fact the "One Coticule"...