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Alaskan Yellow Cedar is the preferred wood type for most of the competitions. Very tight, very straight grain.
And before someone screams, it is not actually a cedar - it is in the cypress family.

The sharper the blade is, the less muscle power you have to expend. For a 5 minute job like a door jamb, 8k is probably high enough. For a thousand cuts into a hardwood, you want the blade to be as...

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In my not so humble opinion:
The micromesh films do work if you are just refreshing an already bevel set...

I start with a 6" grinder and set the bevel angle at either 25 or 22 degrees. Then it is DMT coarse, DMT fine, Norton 1000, Norton 4000, Norton 8000, Naniwa 12,000, CrOx strop, and finally plain...