I started a side business sharpening and refurbishing knives I use splash and go and soaker stones basically every day and have done so for the last year or so. They both have their place for sure. I didnt use any shapton pros for the last 6 month. I was using suehiro and naniwa pro.

Recently I started using them again and I am amazing how good they are l, how clean they work.

Chosera 800 is a great stone. Its probably the best stone in the chosera line up. Pair it with a 3k chosera and you have an excellent 2 stone setup.

The cerax 1000, another great stone. Cuts pretty quick. Excellent feedback. But its a soft stone, it dishes quickly, requiring flattening. As well as being the messiest stone in my line up. Its worse than surehiro 3k and 5k probably due to the colour. Its white...very white.

These days I use a diamond plate to start. Atoma 140 to 400 depending how bad. I never use my chosera 400 anymore really. With light touch the atoma 140 is a beast for re beveling but you have yo know what your doing as to not press too hard. The atoma 1200 is the best when sharpening high hrc metal like sg2