Where did you end up ordering from? I hope you end up getting a good one.
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Where did you end up ordering from? I hope you end up getting a good one.
There is one on ebay right now at $38 and rising. The prices on these stones is already going up as people start seeing how good they can be. especially one that's been tested as a good stone. Still a value purchase but costing more than just a few months ago. When you get a good one hold on to it. My biased opinion of course.
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I ordered from here , i have a problems ordering but after all i sucsede . If we continue to speak and discuss how good they are , the chinese will raise the prises up to the sky , like the Jnats .
The last weekend on a local fleamarket i buy untouched , brand new coticule , the new stones . Glued for a black slate . The size is 18 x 6 x 2 sm as the coti layer is more tha 1 sm thick for .......10 bucs . And i buy this chinese stone for 40 bucs . Tell me more abbout prises.
For a 15 - 20 euro you can buy a kilogram of Cretan hone witch is a very good piece of ..... amazing ultra fine novaculite .
Just saw the final fee-$51.00!!! Wow. You can buy one for 25-$35.00 from woodcraft but you also run the risk of getting an ok one instead of a great one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steel
The big ones at woodcraft are $50 something with shipping in the US. You can get one in person for about $45+tax.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steel
IIRC, the one with shipping on alibaba cost me about $10 less than it would cost woodcraft to ship to me. Woodcraft is 2 hours away. Seems odd to be able to get it cheaper from china, because cost to chip anything other than small coin batteries from china is exorbitant. I wouldn't be surprised to find that half of the price of the stone from china is shipping. Woodcraft's woodworking tools prices are usually higher than anyone else, so I wouldn't expect them to offer the stones for 25% over cost or anything, though once in a while they offer them for half price. Just never seems to be when I have the jones for one!!
Separate and aside from that, woodworking retailers in general tend to offer some quality goods at high prices, and then a bunch of stuff where they make a ton. One of the makers of tools about 10 years ago made a post about 2 wheel dry grinders from china that the woodworking retailers sold being offered to him at a little over $7.50 per delivered to port. Those grinders sold in various stores between $80 and $150, depending on who was selling them.
Well, I don't know what use that little story is other than that the cost of the actual stone is probably a fairly small fraction of the price, and the markup in the US the major amount, and the shipping from china a huge amount of the price from there, too.
Chinese sellers has so many deliverys , as they has an amazing chiping contracts . So they put it in the prise and its a free shiping worldwide and the deal is unbeatable . It is only that the shipping is from 25 to 3 months .
Last stone i purchase came in the end of the 3 rd month .
The end result after 3 weeks and a 38 dollars prise taraaaaaaa
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