Whatever you do don't put acrylic sealer or wax or stone gloss or any of that other stuff on here it will only make matters worse.I like the mb-8 idea but your right it just doesn't work too well on honed floors after all it's a polish preserver.
 
Also understand Clarity and Gloss are very different.I have used twister pads as I got some for free from a supplier for me to try:
 
Imho:They work good for lower grits 200 400 but I don't see using them as a means to provide clarity if a high hone or polish is your ending point, reason being they do not deliver clarity as well as quality honing powders with the proper pads machine water weight etc.
So some of the problem you may be having is one I think you should go a little higher like 1800 maybe and I would use honing powder (my first choice would be diamond resins of course that will get you the most consistant floor with great clarity) instead of the twisters.
 
As for some spots being inconsistant you can do those with the makita depending on how many there are.Clean and rinse the floor very well after honing to clean up the grout and residue if you have a portable extractor that is the best it is what we use but if you don't have one then use your floor machine/water tank flood scrub with soft brissle brush and grout brush's vac then maybe do again.
 
That is what I would do or at least that's the direction I would go
 
Best option-Grind the floor flat use diamonds up to 400 then hone with 800 honing powder clean rinse seal buff.
 
If they don't want to grind you don't want to use resins the frames will be a nightmare, so start with 400 honing powder finish with 1800 clean and seal.
 
Here is some pics of limestone just like yours we did with diamonds up to 1800 then 5x

--- On Thu, 6/11/09, Baird Standish <bairdstandish@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Baird Standish <bairdstandish@gmail.com>
Subject: [sccpartners] honing horrors
To: "Restoration and Maintenance" <sccpartners@stoneandtilepros.com>
Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 5:50 PM

Hi,
We've had a project this week that has sent us back to the drawing board. Any advice would be most welcome.

We took on a job to hone a very light /white (when dry) limestone floor. The floor is about seven years old and the new owner wanted us to re-hone the floor imparting some gloss.  The floor was pretty dinged up.  We have had success with honing marble to 400 or 800 grit with twister or velocity pads, so in this case we honed up to 800 grit with the velocity pad (we tried some honing powder but it left it pretty dull).  We got a pretty good gloss but the floor started showing every minor track mark, swirl, and other side-by-side zigzags leaving a very inconsistent look.  Also, we found it nearly impossible to get up all the residue.  We then put the twister pad on a burnisher, which gave it more gloss and a more even look but still we could see the burnishing pattern and residue still wouldn't come out.  We tried wet and dry.  We then put some MB-8 on the floor, which helped, but not much, and the more gloss we got the more minor imperfections were easily seen.  The floor itself gets a lot of sunlight and is is not perfectly flat, so waves in the floor could also be seen. Also the MB-8 didn't go down as easily as on a polished floor.  The long and short of it is that we gook all of the poly off by wet honing the floor with an 800 grit twister pad. The floor now is completely smooth and clean with no imperfections but also very matte in appearance with no gloss.   I suggested to the owner that he either  go with the flat look or take the plunge and have us powder polish the floor.  But I really would like to keep to a honed finish with  a little gloss (similar to the way it was before).  Just can't get away from  the track mark/ residue issue.   Here' are some picures of the floor before we started.  Any help would be much appreciated.
Baird


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