I put this question to Randy at the end of the sandpaper-bevel thread, but there's lots of you whose expertise on this will be helpful to me. I've got a glass plate and 1000 and 2000 grit sandpapers on their way from handamerican. My plan for a few ebay salvages was to set the bevel with the two sandpapers, then move up to Belgian blue. Josh, Randy, and others however have been talking about the slight rounding that sandpaper can produce; they deal with it by moving from there to Norton 1K and/or 4K after the sandpape. I don't have Nortons, and given that the Belgian blue is ~6K and very slow, I think it's not going to be practical for correcting any rounding.

I don't really want to buy another stone. I have soft and hard Arkansas stones for kitchen knives, and I'm wondering if I could use these as an intermediate step after the papers and before the blue.

I'm sounding you guys out for a or a or a .