Thread: Why are honing stones so expensive? Has our planet ran out of its resources?

As someone wh has made a couple hones from natural rock found in less than a 10 mile radius the resources are everywhere. It's just way way cheaper for a company to order minerals than to cut a mountain of stone into little cubes. The synthetic whetstone industry killed the natural whetstone industry for that reason. Even in Michigan my home state there is a ghost town called grind stone city, which was once a booming town for jobs (making mammoth grind stones from natural rock) but it's demise layed blame to the invention of synthetic whetstones.