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Your strops will work but not if the burr is too large. You don’t need more stones to remove the burr, you can do it on your coarse DMT. Few bits of advice:
It’s perfectly alright to work on discrete areas of the blade without doing full passes. As your new at this you are probably varying pressure as you progress along the blade and /or skipping over areas too quickly.
Try to remove the burr on the stone before progressing to the strops, it really should be minimal at this point. The strops will just tidy up any remnants. You can do this by doing sweeping edge leading passes of the entire blade on the side where you can feel the burr
For the tip you will need to free hand it, guides are only guides. Get your wrist set at the correct angle and then begin to lift you hand up perpendicular to the face of the stone whilst maintaining the correct angle - this will allow you to sharpen the curve to the tip.
That tip damage is pretty severe. You will be at it forever trying to fix that with the coarse DMT
It’s perfectly alright to work on discrete areas of the blade without doing full passes. As your new at this you are probably varying pressure as you progress along the blade and /or skipping over areas too quickly.
Try to remove the burr on the stone before progressing to the strops, it really should be minimal at this point. The strops will just tidy up any remnants. You can do this by doing sweeping edge leading passes of the entire blade on the side where you can feel the burr
For the tip you will need to free hand it, guides are only guides. Get your wrist set at the correct angle and then begin to lift you hand up perpendicular to the face of the stone whilst maintaining the correct angle - this will allow you to sharpen the curve to the tip.
That tip damage is pretty severe. You will be at it forever trying to fix that with the coarse DMT