Your last paragraph,

"So, when you see guys make statements, that just don’t make sense, don’t take their word, try it yourself and see what happens. In this case, 1k is 1k, and if you had a 4/8 or 3/8k stone and were maintaining a handful of razors, you could easily use Wet & Dry, to set a bevel and even do minor edge repair work, use the 4/8k for the heavy lifting, and put off buying a 1k stone."

,,tied the post together for me. I am concerned that you were advocating the use of wet/dry over a stone. The only reason this concerns me is the "new to honing" member might want to skip buying the stone and their skills don't match yours. As you know the bevel is king and I see some new members making a mess of it with wet/dry.

1K stones are cheap Euclid.