Ed, I am giving you a Like because of two things aside from general content: one is "a shotgun spray of stones" and the other is learning another Aussie expression: Master Hover.
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Well they don't have to be super expensive, there are some good sellers on ebay and the 10 mm thick ones are definitely not too spendy.
It looks to me like for what you have spent on the shotgun spray of stones you have you could have bought a 1, 3, 8 and maybe 12k finisher of a known brand such as naniwa. It is also worth bearing in mind that most people say that assigning a definite grit rating to a natural stone is not really possible. I am no master hover or even anywhere near, just what I have read.