A few comments based on 25 years of boring and Honing, but keep in mind I'm now way out of date
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No luck with the cheap three stone hones, especially on 2 strokes. Extremely difficult to maintain accuracy and the stone to wall pressure is so light it often produces a finish which is more like polishing than honing. Marginally OK on soft bores or with kero or diesel as honing fluid.
Tried brush hones when they first became available and found that unless you are careful with the driven speed and the honing fluid they tend to bounce in the bore. Again, kero or similar instead of a proper honing fluid ( eg Castrol ) can help. Generally the finish left on the cylinder was prickly, the cross hatch is there but the surface if examined closely looks like wet and dry paper. Piston skirts after a short run were a mass of fine scores, anal cleaning of the bore after brush honing seems to be essential and even then I think the lousy surface finish in the bore can lead to early piston damage. We gave up on them pronto, but they are brilliant for producing an oil retentive finish in plain bushes and valve guides providing they get the anal cleaning to remove all traces of abrasive.
I reckon the trick for a re ring is to deglaze by hand with about 180 wet and dry and engine oil , as others have suggested or if the bore needs truing up pay a Pro. 45 degree cross hatch. Easy to control and make adjustments to finish etc as you go. If 180 wet and dry too aggressive ( depends on the cylinder material ) draw it slowly across the corner of a piece of angle iron a couple of times ( with pressure ) to take the starch out of it.
For a rebore, track down someone with the best equipment and the best attitood you can find and spend the money, cheaper in the long run.
Plenty of controversy over how to clean the cylinder after honing, but we settled on a rough wash with petrol or solvent, and then endless mopping with clean LINT FREE cotton rag and engine oil. Keep selecting a clean area on the rag, wet with fresh oil, and go around the whole bore and up into ports over and over until the rag with fresh oil comes out Clean. Apply pressure when mopping and follow the cross hatch, first one way and then the other. It's scary how much grit comes off on the oily rag. Cheers.