Originally Posted by
Utopian
First, you really don't actually emphasize the point more by posting the same thing twice in two sequential posts.
Second, regarding the provenance, it is a concern when the vendor A) repeatedly changed the story about the origin of the hone and B) went on a long binge of anonymously reviewing his own product here without disclosing that he was the vendor.
Basically, it goes to a matter of character. No, that does not have an impact on the quality of the hone, but if the guy is calling a rock The Traverse City Hone, would it bother you if he was actually buying it from China? Would it bother you if he joined the forum and started asking a lot of questions about the hone, started multiple threads about the hone, and pretended simply that he was a random user of that hone while never disclosing that he was in fact the vendor of that hone?
Well, it bothered me.
It also makes me distrust any claim that he makes about the hone and that includes any useless claim that he may make about the grit rating of his hone.