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It did take a long time. I started out using the back side of a Norton lapping plate to do most of the grunt work. Once relatively flat, I went through a progression of wet/dry paper starting with...

Yes, the 600 side is faster than the 2000 side. The 2000 side acts almost purely as a polisher compared to cutting with the 600 side.

I have one side of my surgical black lapped to 600 and the other side lapped and dry polished to 2000. The 600 side gives it the hair splitting sharpness while the polished side gives it smoothnes...

Just my experiance, but I found that I get better razor edges off of my surgical black than I do off of my translucent.