Honing can best be define as a procedure in which an rough elements remove material from another component by the stroke of force and movement between those two elements. It is speedy stock removing procedure proficient of producing machinery of very high precision. The coarse element is typically collected of grains of Silicon Carbide and Aluminium Oxide graded so that they are all of a meticulous size and then bonded jointly to honing sticks.

The objective of honing is to create a particular surface finish, a meticulous size, roundness, straightness and parallelism of hole. To attain this end, scratchy element must be hard-pressed against the hole surface in such a way that geometrical are speedily removed.