Quote Originally Posted by hoglahoo View Post
If a noobie can successfully hone a straight razor using a tiny cut-up norton (or a hone made for safety razors, for example), he is a rare exception. The hone is cheap, but if it is too small to use, the value to price ratio is no better than zero. The time and frustration alone would drive me nuts

That is not to say there is not a market for budget items, of course. It just depends how you weigh variables and what you think you can get versus what you want to pay

i'm a noob and I have a set in the mail... I'll let you know how it goes. I'll use the 1/4 nortons to set bevel / hone and a barbers hone to finish followed by a stropping on the poor mans strop from whippeddog.