Anyone experience this before?

Sanded the blade from 220 to 2500 with traditional paper. I had a nice mirror finish, but with some micro lines still visible if you looked closely. I decided that being the anal retentive guy I am, I would grab the Micro Mesh 12000 and start buffing lengthwise along the blade. After about 5 minutes, I am noticing that the blade is clouding! I tried doing swirls to see if that would help... no dice.

I rinsed off the blade to see if I was just getting material or dirt from the NoCry gloves I was wearing, but that didnt help.

To make a long story short, I had to step back to 1000 grit paper, then 1500, then 2000 and back to 2500 grit paper before I got the clouding to go away, costing me another hour and a half of hand sanding!

Anyone experience this with MicroMesh before?? Or was this user error of some kind?

This is my first restore, so I want to learn from my mistakes!

Thanks!
Aldwyn