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It seemed wrong to me to do it without water, but I thought I should be certain. Thank you for the clarification.

From the description, I assume that this is done with completely dry abrasive. Is that right?

OK, I'll respectfully disagree. I find it highly improbable that a piece of grit, rolling around as you described, would stick to the hone due to a bit of adhesive. If the adhesive was insufficient...

Could you clarify this please? I normally use diamond plates as well, but I have lapped hones with wet/dry sandpaper, not dry sandpaper which normally has embedded silicon carbide. If you consider...

It's fine for lower grit hones. The problem with doing it on the Norton is the risking of embedding grit into the hone. As long as you are very careful to clear all of the grit off, then you might...