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Ideally get back and bevel honed as highly polished as you can possible.
The idear of sharp is tho have two surfaces meet to a point with an equale finish / polish.
You can get water stones,ceramic stone, and 3 M films for scary sharpening upto around 32,000 grit
But in reality not necessarily needed you can get sharp with an norton oil stone which equates to about 400 grit good enough for most situations.
If you follow Paul’s method using diamond plates and strop with compound. Go through the course plates to super fine plate brings you up to 1200grit using strop and compound upto 15,000 grit.
Edges degrade as soon as you use them but as soon as an edge goes dull sharpen it not worth caring on your work will suffer as well it is harder on you as well.