David Weaver
I just looked - it's a 10 stitch or so (the washers cover the center stitches) muslin wheel. If I said felt, that's because of my lack of attention to detail in most things It's muslin.

Hard felt can be used with good effect, but it's really aggressive and can raise a big wire edge and round things over.

I looked under the scope off of the 5 micron wax polish and the edge is at least as fine as any shown in the test pictures with the edge durability testing. The compromise is a little bit of edge rounding due to the wheel softness, but this is an advantage on an incannel gouge because it prevents the edge failure from being a nick right at the edge (which usually means no edge failures).

I don't use it on the baldor (fear of a catch and ruining a tool slamming into some fixture on the grinder or stand), rather on a cheap harbor freight buffer.

The pair is dandy - gray scotchbrite wheels have to be one of my favorite modern tools. They leave a finish like a medium stone but cut fast, and in combination with the muslin wheel make a superb sharpening combination for incannel gouges and thin knives made out of files - things that need to be touched up often but where there's no clearance issue. The corners of the muslin wheel are soft and stay clean and a light pass through them takes off any of the remaining foil after the abrasive part of the buff is done.

The wax stick is the inexpensive al-ox stuff from mcmaster carr that's about $10 per kilogram. It's 10 lifetime's worth. Another combination that was chanced into by accident. I bought the felt wheels after seeing someone recommend them (and don't use them now), I can't remember how I got the muslin wheel, but it may have come in something cheap - as long as the last stitch is fairly close to the outside of the wheel, it should work well. I tried the compounds looking for something cheap and fast to use on MDF, but they raise a wire edge there, and the scotch brite wheel is just to clean rust off of dirty tools. I don't use any of them the way I intended, but it fits the spontaneous junk theory.

If you keep enough junk around, eventually it will organize itself into something useful (well, a tiny percentage of it will).