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Be warned that if you leave it sitting in water, sometimes the glue can fail and the halves can separate. Also, your water and hone can get kind of slimy from various things growing in the water.

I highly doubt that you would. This is because as you use the hone, you occasionally need to refresh the honing surface anyway, so any contaminant would be eliminated from the surface. Now, because...

Alx,
I will definitely consider your opinion. I'll even experiment with it, but I gotta ask...

Why "mid-storm rain water" as opposed to plain old rain water? If the rain is collected from a...

Well, you're rubbing steel (with iron in it) on your stones. I don't think the iron will be a problem as long as you filter out the bigger stuff. If you really are concerned, you could buy one jug...

Is the magic in the bubbles? Perhaps it induces a lifting effect? Lynn always says to just go with the weight of the blade at and after the 8k, so maybe LESS than the weight of the blade, due to...

Unless you have really nasty water, tap water should be fine. Sometimes small particles can come with water out of the tap, so if you have ever noticed that, then filtered water, such as from a Brit...