Quote Originally Posted by Utopian View Post
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.
Could you explain that -- the last line about how unnecessary strokes on the 8k might be harmful but not on the 4k?

Seems counterintuitive.

thanks