Dan, the question is, are you able to achieve a sharp edge with your
1000/8000?   If you can sharpen a plane iron (one that is already in good
fettle, not a damaged flea market find) in a few minutes, then you don’t
need anything else.  If sharpening takes a long time (more than a few
minutes), then you probably won’t do it when you should.  Good work simply
isn’t possible or fun with a dull tool.  There are many ways to sharpen,
some quicker than others.  My long dead relative, a finish carpenter, used
nothing more than a two sided (coarse/fine) oil stone his whole life and
did excellent work.  It wasn’t even flat, in fact I’d call it a ‘sway back’
stone, but his irons and chisels were sharp and his cuts were crisp (I was
reminiscing last night looking at his work at my mother’s house,
remembering the day the work was done more than a half century ago).  All
his tools had a convex bevel (a section of an ellipse), not a flat bevel
(and certainly no secondary bevel).  But he had to earn his living, so
sharpening had to be quick and efficient.  I was fascinated by how he
removed the wire edge by stropping the blade on his rough palm, although I
had no idea what he was doing at the time.  It wasn’t until much later when
I had a sudden flash of understanding when I saw an impossibly thin wire
edge dangling from a plane blade in the raking light of a summer dawn.

  I know there are several people here who enjoy sharpening as an end unto
itself, and there’s nothing wrong with that either.  Some people like to
spend hours sharpening, probably enjoying it more than woodworking.  Brent
Beach (RIP) spent a lifetime of study learning about metallurgy, abrasives,
and sharpening, freely sharing his knowledge with all of us (I hope his
webpages have been archived for young galoots to learn from).  For others,
sharpening is simply something that has to be done in order to have fun
with wood.  So if you can get to sharp such that your tools are quickly fit
for purpose, it doesn’t matter what you use.

Unless that is, you are into the Zen of Sharpening.