No it was not and that is probably the problem there. Although I do not want to be dependent on someone else for this sort of thing I would need to learn to do this for myself. I have no problem getting a short term solution fixed in this manner, but in the long term this would defeet one of the major advantages of straights for me, independence. So I will go pick someone to do this for me and in the meanwhile, assuming that I go buy myself a hone how would I use this properly? Let me start the process of learning how to do the job myself.