Well after much recent discussion about hone sizes and shapes, I finally took the plunge and took a saw to my Norton :eek:
I measured 6" from one end and made me a little mark with a scribe and then with an adjustable square traced the line the circumfrance of the hone and got out the little saw and went to work.
If anyone is thinking of doing this, do not underestimate the solid well made product that is a Norton water hone :nono: Ohhh noo... didn't go nearly as easily as I thought. The 4K side cut like butter (well, so to speak), but the 8K side was a real P.I.T.A. (pain in the a$$). Have a couple extra blades on hand because the one I started out with ended up with teeth much like your common house hold case/butter knife.
For those who elect this surgery, all I did (after scribing my line) was soak the hone in water for about 10min, then slowly and steady I cut the line on the "tag" side of the hone (so I ended up with a 6" primary and a 1, 3/8" scrap piece.. remember to account for the material loss during the cutting). I Did this on the kitchen counter so I could keep dunking the hone under running water to wash away the swarf. This helped keep the blade from binding and made the cut go smoothly. You'll know when there is a need for water because your blade with bind and squeek.
Once the cut was made, I used a disposable emory/nail file and running water to even out the cut, and place a bevel/radius on the newly formed sharp edge. I still need to take the end to some wet/dry and give it a good squaring off (my hand is not as steady as it used to be, and the saw is incredible difficult to control once you get deep in the material).
Here is the end result:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...al03/hone3.jpg
You can seem some of the dark marks from the saw on the 8K side, like I siad I still have some squaring off to do..
Here is the newly formed hone and my poor old DOVO for size compairison
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...al03/hone2.jpg