Are there any bona fide ways to make sure the SM I received is legit? I recognize that a whole sharpmaker is going to be a difficult thing to clone exactly, and so far the actual article I received seems OK.
The seller seriously weirded me out though, I bought it for a reasonable resale price and they 'shipped' it right away from VA, despite being listed as located in IL. It then supposedly sat in a VA post office for a week; when I asked if they knew why they did nothing but send me a tracking # and the message 'pls wait.' A week later the tracking info changed again, this time to California. I asked them to explain several times and got either no reply, or the same cut and pasted tracking info. And that infuriating little note. "Pls wait." YOU please wait, I would yell at my screen victoriously.
Ultimately though this made me wonder if this was either just a plain ol scam on me, or some kind of more complex drop shipping scam, or somebody's ended up with some SM'ers that fell off a truck outside the warehouse or something and I shouldn't go asking too many questions.
It arrived yesterday, and It seems like it may be legit, if possibly used - having never used one before I have nothing to compare with. The stones wiggle a bit more in their bases than I expected but that doesn't seem too off to me. The safety rods are silver in color instead of brass, but I feel like I see both in an image search. I'm sure I'm just being paranoid after the weird experience with this seller, but if there's a way to be sure I got what I paid for, I'd appreciate it.
Ways to verify I have a legit sharpmaker?
Re: Ways to verify I have a legit sharpmaker?
I've never heard of a fake Sharpmaker.
The stones do move around in the slots but they sit pretty when you put back pressure on them. I improved the slots a little when I made the special bases for one of the guys here. The stones vary in size a little. So there has to be enough clearance to fit all. There's always going to be at least a little wiggle
They changed the safety rods from brass to aluminum awhile back
The stones do move around in the slots but they sit pretty when you put back pressure on them. I improved the slots a little when I made the special bases for one of the guys here. The stones vary in size a little. So there has to be enough clearance to fit all. There's always going to be at least a little wiggle
They changed the safety rods from brass to aluminum awhile back
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Re: Ways to verify I have a legit sharpmaker?
Danke, I'm satisfied. That's what I figured with the stones, just intrinsic leeway built in for safety when standardizing variable elements of a product, these don't move so much they seem suspect per se.Sharp Guy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 2:16 pmI've never heard of a fake Sharpmaker.
The stones do move around in the slots but they sit pretty when you put back pressure on them. I improved the slots a little when I made the special bases for one of the guys here. The stones vary in size a little. So there has to be enough clearance to fit all. There's always going to be at least a little wiggle
They changed the safety rods from brass to aluminum awhile back
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Re: Ways to verify I have a legit sharpmaker?
Sounds like the unit is more legit than the seller. My guess would be a drop shipper who discovered his regular supplierxand first backup were both out of stock.