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Than I'll explain:
I know NOTHING about honing.
Ask me anything you want about music or coffee, but honing is still far beyond my knowledge.
And for someone who knows nothing about honing, when I...

I agree. Back when I was practicing martial arts there was a saing that kept coming up: it takes a 1000 punches to learn how to punch right, and 10000 punches to correct a punch learned not correctly...

I guess the majority of answers confirms my thoughts... I figured a stone smaller than my index finger would not be comfortable...

Since I started looking at straight razors and before owning...

I thought that maybe due to their size they have a poor honing ability...

Has anyone had any experience with those?
They are 220/1000, a 4000/8000 and a lapping stone (all nortons), all come from original Norton stones cut in 4.
The size of the honing stones is 1.5"x4"....