"Jnat slurry progression" method on synthetic finishers???
I have recently purchased a new GS 20k, which hopefully will be in on two or three weeks :gl:, and have come up with a question or two. When purchasing the stone I noticed it comes with a 1k/3k duel grit "conditioning stone". When researching and reading about this conditioning stone, I noticed that many consider it like a "norton prep stone", where that it is only to take off the high points of the stone in order to keep from increased flattening occurrences. Then I thought then why not just use a single grit. So I thought that there may be more purpose to the stone than expected. Which drove me looking at jnats and naguras.
So then my question. Could our synthetic finishers work like the host stones of the jnat finishers (i.e. Nakayama asagi) and using naguras (or other grit progression slurries) on the synthetic finisher instead of having multiple stones in order to progress to the finisher?
Now I do already have multiple stones in multiple grits, so this is not an attempt at being "cheep", but rather a hypothesis looking for proof. it almost seems sacreligious to think using multiple different grits on a finishing synthetic stone, but I thought it would be interesting to see what might happen and if anyone has tried it. And if it would be a good experiment, is there any recommendations that should be considered first. Or if I should stop my endeavor because someone already knows that it doesn't work? Ideas???