I'm not sure if that reference was to me not having any machine work done using studs or not. But for clarification I have every block I do align honed, and if installing studs I would never advise someone that it was ok to not align hone. I don't know how many I've done now - but the first one my machinist told me I had to, and then he and I measured the distortion to prove his point. In a couple later cases the studs didn't locate the cap properly.
