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If you're working on edges that are already pretty close or, they really don't need much work, than I would do what you're still doing and just use the coticule with slurry then water and not drop...

Gary:

It depends on where an edge is at prior to bringing it to the blue. If you need to set a bevel, than I would be dropping to a lower grit. You mentioned that you have the DMT 1200. I use...

Yes, just add some water to the Belgian Blue surface, flip your DMT over and place the DMT on top of the belgian blue. Then with a small number of circular motions, you'll have slurry on your blue...

Gary, most of us creat slurry on stones that don't have a matching slurry stone by using our diamond lapping plates (finer grits are better). I use a DMT D8E which is a 1200 grit. It works well.
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