Very elementary. I can never seem to clear up all the 1000-grit scratches with my 1200-grit ceramic stones. It hadn’t occurred to me that the scratches might actually be caused by 800 grit contamination.
Oh, ok. I was confused since I thought you were referring to your 1000s somehow getting contaminated by your strops or, much worse, your strops getting contaminated by your 1000s (let’s not open that can of worms). But, yes sir, that totally makes sense… Reading this makes me think I need to take cleaning between diamonds as serious as I do cleaning between strops.