Hello I'm a newbie ( surprise) who would like to get involved in sharpening -honing my own self....trouble is ...there are no stones to be found in the great state of Arizona...with all the whiskers here it seems impossible to me that I have to buy from an on-line store...what did the older cowboys do before there was a sidewalk to sharpen our razors on....I know those wooden walkways would not have done it ---did the barber have to go on-line to get a new stone from as far away as Chicago...