I am planning to get one of Tony's pasted strops when they become available for maintaining my razor(s). However, I am getting interested in trying my hand at using a hone. I know, this may be a slippery slope, but I always did like sliding down b*tt first.

So I have been doing some reading, and figured a 12k (there is a Woodcraft not too far away) or a Spyderco ultrafine stone may be a relatively inexpensive but good was to start. My concern is lapping the 12k stone. It is inexpensive, but getting a DMT bench stone just to lap it (and likely never use again) seems impractical. Is there any other more practical way to do this? Is it feasible to lap the stone with just wet/dry sandpaper?