Quote Originally Posted by Birnando View Post
That may look like a good deal, but in my opinion it is no such thing.
It will make honing that much harder, and it is hard enough without adding those tiny stones to the equation.
Save up and get some proper tools, these are all but useless to most anyone as far as I'm concerned.
I beg to differ. I bought one of these quarter hones from Larry @ whippeddog, and it works just fine. Obviously you have to make x strokes instead of going straight up and down the hone, but I can achieve shave quality on all my razors with it.