Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHAD View Post
I haven't tried that so I can't say anything from experience. I would think you would have to spend a lot of time on the finisher to make up for skipping the intermediate stones ?

One more thought, Sham (hi_bud_gl) and I were talking once and he pointed out that if you go to an Escher or an expensive J-nat, coticule ..... whatever finisher, you are wearing the expensive stone with work that could be accomplished with a cheaper and easily replaceable synthetic. Made sense to me and I've changed my honing practices accordingly.
All excellent points here. Altho a lot of j-nat finishers can be hard stones. I would imagine wear & dishing would occur with that kind of use.
Even So fro Japan tool recommends synthetics up to 2-4k to preserve j-nats for what they do best ie mid to end stage.