Thread: Why does these ebay seller miss label every darn stone they list.

The seller is Todd Hughes. He's a flea market flipper and a blacksmith (he actually can do some very nice blacksmith work, but I guess he chooses not to any longer).

I doubt he knows anything about shaving, I don't remember him ever mentioning anything about shaving (he used to frequent woodworking boards), but he probably has found that shavers will pay more for stones than anyone else, even when they're mislabeled. I used to get into arguments with him a lot, and he's an alright guy (doesn't excuse the mislabeling, though). AT one point, I made a crack at him, and he smithed me a beautiful brass cross pein hammer (I can't remember what he was proving to me, but he definitely proved he's got some old-school toolmaking hand skills), but he shaped the handle like a weiner, anatomically correct and all, and refused to take any money for it. He's definitely a different kind of guy. I gave it to a woodworking club so they could use it for entertainment, but I'd have kept it if it had a handle I wouldn't have to explain every time someone saw it.

That stone looks dead on like a vintage washita stone (the good kind, not the kind of washita stones that are sold as washita today). I guess nobody is buying them for tools. I'm pretty sure he knows what that one is. If they have pike labels, they bring a lot. If they have no labels, they seem to bring almost nothing (got a woodworker's delight boxed and labeled stone for $14 a couple of weeks ago).

Anyway, address your emails as "hey todd" and maybe he'll pay attention.