Quote Originally Posted by apipeguy View Post
Okay, in my shopping cart from SRD I have placed the Norton 4000/8000 as a starter stone, as the cost is about the same as one Naniwa stone. I also have a 12000 Naniwa for finishing and a Norton flattening stone.

Does this sound like a good place to start? See what I like and then go from there. I have always believed in crawl, walk, run but also believed in purchasing good tools.
Except for the Flattening plate it sound s good. The DMT 325 would be my NO. 1 choice. The other thing would be to watch the honing videos . the two people I have watched are Lynn Abrams and Ssixgun. Both are very informative. They helped me greatly.