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Wow that's a lot of strokes.

Generally I do 20-40 laps on the 4K to establish a bevel.
Then 1 or 2 3-3, 1-3, 1-5 pyramids.
And depending on the HHT results, I do a 1-5, test, and repeat as...

I once spent about 3.5 hours taking out a nick on the yellow -you know the story- and then some more on blue and yellow to shape the bevel and sharpen it.

By that time I had honed it so much that...