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That looks like some decent blunt spots. It looks like it will need to go to the hones. How much is hard to say but they don't look like small spots. The first 4 look very evenly spaced as though...

In your original post you mention that you stropped 3 times wiping in between and all 3 times got the flakes in the same spots. I would check those 3 spots very carefully under the loupe for nicks...