For starters the blade had lots of hone wear and the picture actually makes it even look better as it really was. Scratches and blemishes went really deep especially the back side which is not featured. Another problem was the edge which badly curved towards the heel side and doesn't really show all that well in the pic. The scales from close looked like a dog had spend a 15 minutes playing time with them. So basically it looked really worse than the pic shows. But I managed to resurrect the Duck. Didn't want it to turn into a Chinese roast duck.