Been in the garden, the light is flat and pretty poor today but the pictures don't look so bad.
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Higher res images can be found on my flickr page.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/47243534@N00/
The slurry was raised with a 1K diamond plate. Took less than 20 strokes for that amount.
I also ran a razor on it without slurry to see if it does auto slurry. 100 passes, no slurry produced. So it's hard and soft at the same time. Certainly not expected, and probably means I can use the regular dilute method for honing.