Thread: Auto Hone information?

Just think... with a couple dozen of these machines, we could put guys like GSsixgun and Lynn out of business....

Regards

Kaptain "Waddayamean it doesn't work with warped razors? ALL my razors are warped!" Zero

OK, I admit it. For a brief time the one in the upper photo, or one that looked exactly like it, was in my possession. I paid a ridiculous amount of money for it and played with it for a few weeks and then returned it. The reason was that the seller absolutely insisted that the mounted hone was an Escher. I warned him that it did not look like an Escher, but rather a synthetic hone. I told him that if it was not an Escher I would either return it or expected some adjustment in the price. I went out of my way to get him to understand that it was not an Escher but he stood his ground. I made it clear that my purchase was conditional on the hone being an Escher.

When I received it, of course it was a synthetic hone, just as I had told the guy. He refused to make any adjustment on the price and I was not willing to let him get away with the con, so I returned it. If he had taken off a couple hundred bucks, or even ever been willing to admit his "mistake," I would have kept it; but he was unrelenting in his insistence that it was an Escher. He refused to return my money so I had to take it up with ebay. The same Escher/synthetic argument occurred there and the failure of his argument simply was due to his insistence that synthetic hones did not exist yet in 1914. I showed a couple of Popular Mechanics ads for Carborundum hones from about 10 years prior to that and so he lost his argument.

I really did not want to return it. I don't tend even to let go of hones, so letting go of this was much more difficult!