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Smaller jumps ie more stones, means you can do less work on each stone & make smaller changes to the edge at each grit. It's not crucial for the shave but allows for a nice polish for those of us...

If the diamond helps after the 16k it may be that it has cleaned up a false edge or micro burr from too many strokes on the 16. After that point you could do say, 2 or 3 feather light strokes on the...

Does the 16k dull the edge or do you dull the edge with the 16k ? ;). Is your 8k edge already shaving well ?