So you want to talk excessive.

Take a good metal polish, Mass or Mothers, paint 3in X’s of either on the inside of a Cereal box cardboard. (By the way with Christmas here, save some of the thin, cheap wrapping boxes, they are larger than Cereal boxes and they make great strops for experimenting with paste.

Now take a razor up to a good finish quality edge, 8 or 12k, now do 50 laps on the pasted cardboard, you will remove all or most all the stria. Now finish, on your finish stone of choice. What you will have is a pure, whatever your stone of choice is edge. The metal paste edge is too rough to shave on but your finisher will clean it up, you may have to lightly joint the edge on the finish stone, depending on how aggressive you got with the paste.

You have to let the paste dry.

Save those boxes, they come in handy.

Excessive? Maybe a little…