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I feel as though society frowns upon the method that first comes to mind. I'm sure somewhere out there is a woman that would be impressed by next-level honing skills though.

There's a reason I avoid the latter, but I've yet to meet a rock that can't be tamed.

Pet peeve. It would bug the stuffing out of me until I found something 'soft' and not harmful to fill the void with. I know negative space shouldn't be detrimental, but still. Grr!

Agreed that the word toxic is perhaps a poor choice. But you've also got the mindset that, in order to be useful/good, a hone has to be homogeneous to contend with. And really that's what needs to...

Very much agreed. I like stones with a little character. Outright broken ones, maybe not so much. But flawed/imperfect, yet still functional, are more attention getting so to speak.

Yeah, taking a look at that particular hone has me re-evaluating my opinion of hones with inclusions. Maybe it would do me well to learn how to dig that junk out and fill it in, rather than just...

Dug this up taking a look around for that video. A very interesting thread with pictures of stones used by a Japanese Knifemaker:
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Well, my original assumption prior to seeing that video was that the process would've been modernized, at least to some degree. And I guess it has because the fellow had a stone agitating machine he...

My thoughts are if you're buying something cheap off ebay, you already know what you're getting yourself into. Or should at any rate.

Sure it would be nice if they came forward and said,...

Actually my Dragon's tongue has (had?) a good sized chunk of something bad in it. Either the hone or the rubbing stone one...left a pretty wicked gouge in the surface of the DT. Caused me no end of...