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Sweet, nice work.

Just be careful with bevel setting on a Diamond plate. If you start having problems chipping just get the bevels flat and almost set, then set the bevels completely with the 5k. ...

They won’t hone themselves, and they are not magic, but those are great stones. With what you have, you are set for life.
While you are waiting, look at the library and the honing videos from Lynn...

And that, is the biggest difference in sharpening tools and knives, a nano serrated edge for most knives and tools is a good thing.

And why the hair test is so unreliable, a serrated edge will...

Well… there’s your problem…

Pastes are a whole different animal. When learning to hone, eliminate the most variables possible, eg use known synthetic hone progression. And this in not honing it is...

Are you talking about film and um as m?

Did you buff or sand the blade?

Which 1K are you using?

Did you breadknife the edge?

By”loosing it” are you saying it is chipping?