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I have watched Paul’s video’s on sharping if I remember correctly his diamond plates are 300,600,1200 followed by green honing compound so a polished edge of 60k grit. Now for some reason stopping at 1200 doesn’t seem like that would make a very keen edge to do fine work even with polishing with compound. Yet when you watch his work it says very much other wise.
From the way you are talking it sounds like you and I sharpen in a very similar manner. I too remove the burr before going to the next stone. I am not exactly new to keeping and having a flat back as 3 of my kitchen knifes are single beveled Japanese knives, they are useless if the back is not flattened. Same goes with my chisels I flatten the whole back not just a inch or so as I use Japanese chisels as they are hollow ground so much less material to remove any ways to keep a totally flat back. Also helps god forbid you get a chip much easier to put a new edge on and have it parallel and not have a step so can use the whole blade to register and pare with.
I have three strops two smooth one rough that are stretched out and glued and tied to a piece of white oak that I had planed totally flat. one smooth bare and the other two treated with green rouge till they become to caked and loaded then toss. I only use the leather strops for chisels my knives I strop right on the stones while sharpening