David Weaver
....soft arkansas stones from different vendors have a wide variety of fineness. Hard stones didn't at one point, but now they do due to some vendors selling stones that have small pores on them (they cut fast and raise a wire edge).

If there's a stone that it makes sense to slurry, it would be the soft ark for someone who doesn't want to use waterstones, diamond stones or an india stone (some of the modern stuff and softer steel pins on india stones pretty easily, especially if a wire edge comes off on the india stone).

This particular stone wasn't scuffed much, and the exercise could be repeated, so it's working finer than any soft ark that I've seen unless the soft ark is allowed to settle in indefinitely and become more like a finish stone.

At the same time, the real issue with this process is the slurrying and the fact that the stone will now raise a wire edge more easily (one that's much more persistent) due to its cutting power, but the evenness of the edge is as good (just a little bit more toothy) as it was without a slurry. Whether this would hold true under rougher scuffing on the surface would just be speculation at this point.

I prefer the stones settled in and not scuffed, and to go to a coarser stone if removal needs to be faster - it's less work, and it leaves the use of the very fine stone more open to touch and with nearly no wire edge to deal with. I was surprised by the fineness of the edge shown here and expected it to look more like a new soft arkansas stone edge with some evidence of beating/slurry damage at the edge.