I didn't take a tape to my True Hard to see how close to 10 x 2 x 1 it was. Now I'm curious. I don't think I'd miss that quarter inch enough to kick up a fuss if it came up shy. I probably won't even manage to do much more than dish my 1/2" Best stones a bit over the course of a lifetime, I'd never wear enough into the stone to ever really know the difference.

Sometimes gold can be found on ebay. That's how I stumbled into the 12" x 2.5" monster Arkie I've got. $90 for that, 2 smaller Arks, an Eze Lap hone, a few scythe stones and old carborundum type knife hones I'll probably never use. I think it was an OK deal, I just hope the seller never finds out what the big one was and what they sell for. Poor fella might have kittens, cause I'd have paid twice that easy for that alone.