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Mike, I don’t know if I’ve been lucky but I’ve never had a problem flattening a chisel or iron down to my extra fine diamond stone, following with a strop on the green honing compound. I get perfectly mirror finishes on the backs that way. You can go finer than that on a stone, but the compound is something like 15,000, so it always seemed like a waste to go past 1200. So removing the burr on 1200 isn’t really a concern as far as I see. Take a few swipes on the strop on the back every once in awhile to touch it up.
I think we worry about these things too much and over-complicate things. If the chisel or iron is sharp and can take hair off your arm, it will cut wood just fine.
I couldn’t see the second part of your question, with the new strange problem on the forums of not being able to see the text in the first post.