Thread: vintage norton razor hone on ebay

Perhaps lack of the available abrasive of this quality.

They would be hard for the chinese to duplicate. It's not the looks that are different than other razor hones (on these or the frictionites), it's the feel and the edge.

I wonder if the canadian buyer is a proxy buyer for someone in australia, or if they're just an enthusiast.

Every frictionite hone I've sold that was open to australia went to australia. This last week, I sold a big #00 (selling all of these for a friend), and it went to wisconsin, and when I looked at the details for the sale, the address was just a US address receiving packages for an email address of an aussie. Some enterprising australian has realized they can get a good deal if they can have someone receive packages for them in auctions not open to aussies (in this case, i didn't, because the big #00s - 8 inches long - wouldn't fit in a small flat rate box.

it would be really hard to duplicate the box that it comes in, plus the pictures would have to be legible and it would be extremely hard to get one to look like a real norton....I don't see it happening....in fact, just the box itself would give it away im pretty sure

all of the manmade hones i bought and resold for good money
have always ben to a buyer in that country.