Help finding a hone

Lemme start by saying thank you to all the people that poured alot of time and effort into this site, when I first got interested in straight razors a few months ago, I fell back on this site for all the information on who what and how. You guys put all the information in one place and made it neat and clean saving me alot of time and money. So onto my question

OK, so I bought 2 razors and a strope on ebay from open_razor, double arrow i believe is the brand. Fairly sharp, but need honing. I have always been a DIY kinda guy and know that I will never learn if I dont try. I am reluctant to have someone else set the hone for me. So here is my question: I have heard alot about Nortons, but dont really want to spend as much on a stone as I did on the razors and strope plus shipping. Is there either anyone in SE Michigan that has a used hone to sell, or a less expensive with comperable results method that I can appropriate localy? Or really for that matter, someone local who could show me how to hone and let me use there stone.

Thanks in advance.

Welcome to the SRP!:)

The only fly in the ointment of your reasoning is that you have absolutely no idea of what a str8 razors edge should feel like. You could hone until the cows come home but you would never know when the edge was ready for a shave test!:) The best thing you can do is to send one of the razors out for honing by one of the guys here. Then you would have a benchmark reference point for razor sharp.
Some people use a double edge safety razor blade as a point of reference.


Just my two cents,:)