Originally Posted by
Charles Guest
A honing stone so out of flat that nowhere on its two broad surfaces (top or bottom) will it reach the burr on the flat side of a plane iron is in serious need of maintenance or replacement, not a trick or workaround. Help me understand how otherwise extraordinarily well-equipped operations find themselves consistently in this state of affairs and not once every fifth blue moon or so. In the time it took to refine this technique and post YouTube videos, write articles, etc. then stone maintenance could have occurred rendering the entire 'trick' moot.
I'm not a user of the method, but it has absolutely nothing to do with not being able to maintain a flat stone.
Bumbling forward into the unknown.