So this TI is finishing in a couple of hours. It is item # 400040015634 in case the link doesn't work. The scales don't look like TI to me and the spine has these strange dots. It just doesn't look right to my eye. They remind me of the dots that are left in the edge of tempered glass from the fasteners from which they hang the glass when they are tempering it. The one I have is perfect and I am pretty sure thebigspendur's is too. This is the second TI Damascus to come up on ebay in the last couple of weeks. The first one was discussed in this thread here and looked worse then this one. It is the same seller.