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If you have found what works for you, and if you do not desire to fall down the rabbit hole of trying other hones, then you really have no need to buy a Naniwa or any other hone. I got by just fine...

The Chinese hone is very slow. That is, it cuts steel very slowly. For that reason you have to do a lot of strokes (like 50 to 100) to accomplish much of anything with it. Now if you cut that hone...

Everything is wrong with that item other than it being Chinese. It's not 12k. As a natural stone, it has no grit designation. I know I have beaten this point to death but it should not be called...

Agreed. Buy the full size hone.

To repeat yet again, IT IS NOT 12K and people who are supposed to know better should not be promoting that fallacy.

Go ahead and spend the $35 for the full size...