Ok, now that I got all Shapton owners' attention:

Here's the deal- I had a nice talk with Howard over @ the Perfect Edge. I basically asked if Shapton had any plans to make the glass stones in a narrower width. I first asked about the possibility of cutting a Shapton Pro, but he advised against even trying since the Pro isn't as good an instrument as the glass stones and the Pro's are being discontinued (all according to both Howard and Shapton). Then we got to talking about cutting the Shapton Glass stones and how no one has the balls... ahem... guts to do it because of what it might cost them... i.e. their hone. So here is what we want-

Howard is going to ask Harrelson about Shapton's plans to make a narrower Glass stone line but I am not too hopeful. In the meantime we want to try cutting them ourselves. ***So who among you has a damaged/dysfunctional/chipped/"borrowed"/much used stone? Or maybe you are just unhappy with them?*** I will pay for you to ship it so that we can experiment. Obviously if it works out, you get back the results. If not, then you get back a slightly more dysfunctional hone.

It will work out for everyone! If not in a positive light at least we will then all know not to try cutting your Shapton! Who here will benefit us all at SRP?