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That looks like one of those rare candidates for less than 1k grit to my eyes. I don't like anything going on in that last picture. Especially if that's toward the toe.

My wedge put up a fight...

Looks like significant improvement over what was going on before. I'm not seeing the chipping that was present before hand around the 3K mark.

As straight as that looks after leather I'm not sure...

For the most part I'm ptone to agree Euclid, but 3 rounds with the 4k to have it look no better - or worse - than it started? The only way I've seen that from one of my Norton 4ks was when it still...

I don't think his coticule is tearing up the edge, I think we're seeing chips resulting from underlying issues. As far as the scratches go, the new ones made by the coticule seem to be ball park 8K,...

Referencing those track marks Euclid pointed out, when you spot them on the 4k you can see something chipped that edge up pretty good. And judging by the 1K, and other 4k pics, I'm leaning toward a...

Well, looking at his photos, after the coticule and chrome ox his edge is still less refined than the 12k. There's still marks from the coticule left over, so there's probably still traces of the...

Utopian beat me to it. That's more or less what I was thinking.

I think maybe our combination hones are from the same bad run or something. I had a 4/8, and no matter what I did the 'back' end of my 4K just never felt as smooth as what I would dub the 'front' of...

Very nice photos!

Agreed, something seems off with the Norton 4K. The edge should be getting straighter here than it was at 1K, not worse. That doesn't even look to be improving on the 1K stria,...