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You should lap any honing surface periodically. So if it is a combo hone the answer is yes. It can be done with sandpaper on a flat surface, or if you have the disposable income to spare, a DMT D8C...

If I only had one hone in the world ..... what a horrible thought ...... it would be a Norton 4/8 combo. If the practitioner knows what they are doing, it will fill the bill for just about anything...