too low of an angle+ soft steel= one very stubborn burr

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i went as low as i could on my opinel, leaving less than 1mm between the stone and the spine and ground away a lot of metal. I didn't go all the way to create a burr. started alternating strokes back and forth on the medium and i get this burr...
ok, fine, went to the spydie whites. still there. kept going...err..taking forever, break out some cardboard and strop compound..err..i rounded off the edge..back to fines, but at a high angle, repeated until it was gone. i don't have that ultra thin edge anymore, but still better than before. i need to do this on m2 or something
 
You are almost there. Just go back to your low honing angle with the flats of your medium rods. Do about 10 strokes per side (alternating sides) using medium-light honing pressure. Then do about 10 light strokes per side on your fine rods using light pressure. This should not be enough honing to start a burr, but should undo what you did trying to remove your burr. Now adjust your honing angle a few degrees higher and do about 5 strokes per side on the white rods. The edge is so flexible that you won't really increase the final edge angle noticeably. Now strop with light pressure.

Next time do not try and deburr using a strop. That just fatigues the metal and tears the edge off. And don't debur using the fine rods (they don't bite well enough). Gently hone edge-forwards on your medium rods at something like 45 degrees per side. Alternate sides as you go and do the minimum number of strokes to get rid of the burr. Then go back and lightly hone some more to get rid of the tiny bit of 45 degree angle that you left. This carbon steel will respond particularly well to stropping at this stage. Once you learn the tricks of deburring a mild steel you will find that you get an outrageously sharp edge on it, particularly after you strop. Just don't press hard when you strop and don't use it for deburring.
 
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