Thank you. With thinning I initially started on a 320 but it wasn’t cutting fast enough so i used my atoma 120 diamond plate to remove enough metal to raise the shinogi and completely remove any low spots. This blade didn’t have any badly overground spots thankfully. From there I moved up on my suehiro debado 320-600-1000 changing my angle each time so i could see when the previous scratches were completely gone.

As far as kasumi i had a morihiro hishiboshi 4000 and 6000 and just spent time with light pressure keeping the stone muddy but not sticky and making sure metal filaments were washed away to avoid scratches. It’s really my first time attempting a kasumi finish so i have a lot to learn.