Lisle 15000 Engine Cylinder Hone 3-4.5 Range and 280, 500 stones

Excellent Hone for a Range of Needs

First time using this hone I realized most of what I read online and heard in videos was bunk. This will NOT break your wrists, it will NOT definitely taper your bores, it is not going to tear through several thousandths of an inch in seconds. These horror stories are clearly from user error, oversight, or ignorance in how to use the tool. This is an excellent tool that - when used properly - can do everything for a basic street performance build, from a light touch up that many would use a three-stone hone to do, all the way to taking off a few thousandths of an inch (maybe even up to 10 if you were really patient). Anything more than that (in what you need to take off or what your performance intentions are for the build) and you really should just send the block to a shop. This is a great option if (a) you want to do things yourself and (b) you are not going for some version of an "ultimate-perfect-race" build. I suspect folks with bad experiences with this are trying to rush (not starting conservative and learning what the tool needs, the rate at which you have to work, etc.), or they are cranking up pressure on the stones (i.e. not letting the stones do the work - a basic principle most of us probably already know).

Quality and heavy duty

I have used the ball hones and the three stone spring hones. Thisnisuch higher quality and more robust. Comes with the grits you meed for a platue hone woth modern rings. Compared.to my Indian made rigid hone, this one mechanically is much better thought out.