Quote Originally Posted by DoctorSaul View Post
If you do what you say to set the bevel with a 1K, won't you spend the next few days trying to smooth out the roughness on the blade edge? I thought it was best to set the bevel with no less than a 8000K grit, unless the blade was in really poor shape, am I mistaken?
Once the bevel is set on a 1K moving up through 5K, 8K and then finisher is quite quick. To follow your logic, why not just use the finisher and only own one stone?