sorry, this is not a review.. yet. I am looking to add a finer grit stone to my water stone line up.
at the moment I'm using Chosera 800 then 3000, so the snow-white seems like the logical step. however, I have a few critiria and it seems to me that the 10K select II might just fit the bill better. the criteria are:
1. no soaking. after much reading seems like both work fine without, but the snow-white needs a heavy splash or a short soak to behave at it's best. any sigma select II 10K users who can comment on that?
2. little loading and or sticky-ness. those are the main things that led me to sell or dislike most finishing stone I have used. I tried the shapton 8k, it loads as if it's not meant to be used... the 6k dual stone is better, but boy is it slow.
if you think about it, I'm looking for something that will work and feel more like a good natural stone than a fine grit synthetic stone. but I do not have the $$ to start playing around with natural stones. since the select II has no binder in it, just pure abrasive, seems to me that is might be to closest thing. the snow-white also has a high abrasive content like the rest of the chosera line, and if it's as good as the 3k than I'm sure it's a great stone, so I'm a bit conflicted but leaning towards the sigma...
on a side note: I also use a hard ark from naturalwhetstone and a piece of jasper as an oil stone set-up, works fantastic as long as I keep the ark fresh, but it's not for all of my tools.