I cleaned up the edge again:
Then did 5 light strokes, edge-leading:
and 20 more edge-leading strokes:
I’m again fascinated by the way metal can be so easily pushed along the surface and piled up on the bevel. I was using whisper-lite pressure.
Hopefully people will jump onto this topic to explore it further and relate anecdotal information about cutting performance with edge-leading and edge-trailing techniques.