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It sounds like you are determined to hone the blade yourself.
I don't have a problem with that, but as long as you are ordering honing stones, you will need a 1k for bevel setting and a lapping...

If it was truly shave ready and you stropped it first, then you could have messed the blade up with a bad strop stroke.
More than likely though, it just had a 4k bevel set and while shave ready, it...