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I bought the full set including the 3000 6000 upgrade.
For each knife I sharpied the edge (used a sharpie to colour it) and then went through each stone in turn, using the sharpie before each stone.
After I have gone through all the stones one final pass along each edge with the diamond standard stone removed the burr, then a quick strop. This stage isn’t shown in all the YouTube demonstrations but is essential in my experience.
Now I know all my knives are at a consistent angle I don’t have to go through the coarser stones to get a fine edge back, so it’s super quick and the results will shave arm or leg hairs with no problem and do a fine clean cut through paper. But it was only after I started doing the final single pass with the diamond standard that I was consistently impressed with the results.
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