not new at all
same goes for cleaning, use whatever grit pad you want, add some clean n dull to it
apply to ball on spinner, awesome, fresh finish.
perfect every time.

got that from KYLE at the EBONITE booth at NATS last year

Interesting!

Are they doing this with "smooth" polishes, such as Xtra Shine, or "grit" polishes, such as Storm 1/2.

I read this thread yesterday and I used a 1000 abralon pad with ebonite factory finish polish on a roto grip disturbed and shot 300 first game of league. I will be trying this on a couple more balls for sure.

I just did it right on top of the 2000 finish

Been doing this for a while, generally Ive tried 2000 pads and it leaves a nice sheen type finish, you can definitely see the surface under the polish.

For me it gives me the best of both worlds, in that the ball will clear the heads nice and give me more of a hard arc type controllable backend. Definitely works wonders for me on wet/dry house shots, it will tame down over under, at least for me.

Did this on a 607A SE 2 years ago and shot 300/790 first night with it.

Not to sound dumb...but wouldn't applying it to an abralon pad just instantly knock the polish off? In other words how is it any different than applying an 1000 grit pad to a polished ball? Wouldn't the end result just be a matte 1000 finish? It sounds interesting though and can't wait to try it.