There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
You probably should also get a nagura stone to make a slurry for the 6000 side, also can help clean a bit without going full on with the stone fixer.
The only reason I've had ones that are lower than 1000 is when I need to work through a real ding or missing chunk out of a blade and I'm trying to rescue it.
When I bought a knife a long long time back, I asked the knife guy if he had any recommendations on stones and he sold me an 800 King stone and it had one of those in the box. I also bought a lapping stone at the same time.
As I said, the medium grit stone seemed to work great with the knife I bought it with but the one I have now seems to need the higher grit polishing step more (and some asshole broke ALL of the stones we had at work, not that I could remember which color was what with the labels worn off)