Honing tool and honing stick

A honing tool comprising:

• a tool body that is tubular at least in certain portions and comprises a cutting region with at least one honing stick receiving opening which is continuous from an interior of the tool body to outside and is adapted to receive a honing stick,
• wherein dimensions of the honing stick receiving opening and the honing stick are matched to one another such that the honing stick is received radially movably, and without play in a circumferential direction of the tool body, between boundary surfaces of the honing stick receiving opening,
• a honing stick retaining system comprising at least one elastically compressible retaining element and in an installed state of the honing stick engages, with a pressing force generated by compressing the retaining element, on a boundary surface of the honing stick receiving opening such that the honing stick is held in the honing stick receiving opening by the honing stick retaining system,
• wherein the honing stick has at least one through-opening in a guide portion that interacts with the honing stick receiving opening, and the at least one elastically compressible retaining element is disposed in the at least one through-opening, and
• the at least one elastically compressible retaining element is configured, in the installed state of the honing stick, to engage, with the pressing force generated by compressing the at least one elastically compressible retaining element, on two mutually opposite boundary surfaces of the honing stick receiving opening such that the honing stick is held in the honing stick receiving opening by the honing stick retaining system;
• wherein the at least one elastically compressible retaining element is in the form of a ball of an elastically deformable material.