Originally Posted by
Utopian
Sorry, I just noticed what ELSE you wrote--namely, "on every stone!"
Do NOT do that. The extra strokes MAY be needed on the 1k and will do no harm at the bevel setting phase. When you get better at assessing the progress of your bevel setting, you can just stop when the bevels fully meet. Until then, there is no harm doing some extra strokes to make sure the task is done. However, you don't need those extra strokes on the other hones. They would not do harm on the 4k but could on the 8k.