I’m in the middle of working my way through my first set of hand cut dovetails… and a big part of the learning curve is sharpening. I’ve got a set of King waterstones… I’ve honed a mirror finish on the bevels and backs of my chisels and they will cut wrist hair with a very, very slight tug that I can feel. I use a honing guide with a wheel that rides on the stone. In an effort to keep things simple, I’m not yet attempting to give the edge a microbevel. I find that the more coarse stones put a nice wire edge on the back of the chisel. As I work my way through the grits — on the bevel only — it seems that the wire edge gets less and less pronounced even though I don’t hone the back of the chisel until the finest grit as the final step. In fact, by the time I get to the finest grit (G4) I can’t feel a wire edge anymore. Is that normal? Why would the wire edge gradually disappear on its own as I progress through the grits? Am I rounding the edge in some way? Thanks for any advice and for an extremely informative forum.