The working area of the Swaty is clean but the shipping on that makes it a no go. It would have to sell for under $20 or so to make it cheap enough to offset that shipping. The coticule has crazy shipping too. For a refresh hone that is easy to use, you can get a Naniwa 12K from Paul’s finest. If you get to doing restore works it will fit in better there. If you think you want to try a barber hone out then perhaps put a want ad in the classifieds. There are a lot of guys with boxes of barber hone stashed away that will likely let them go for less than ebay.