Quote Originally Posted by malaverdiere View Post
So I can go back to the sand paper to remove the scratches. Then I could use my small AlOx hones from the Lansky set (600 and 1000) to finish the burnishing?
If you use sand paper to get it scratch free, going back to the AlOx hones is likely to just scratch it up again rather than burnish it. Typically I'll use sand paper up to 2K grit, then use my Norton 4K and 8K hones. After that if I want a finer surface I'll either polish the stone with CrOx, burnish it with the tomo nagura that came with my Jnat, or find a hard steel tool that I can use to scrub the surface and burnish it even finer. Honestly after the 2K sand paper you can probably skip right to any of the burnishing steps if that's what you're trying to accomplish with your stone, I just have fun playing with them and once they're flat and scratch free the rest of the polishing phases go by pretty quickly.