Had a similar experience at a store I went into once and never again. They had a Friodur scales were mint but the blade had terrible hone wear and a chip big enough to make it unsalvagable and they wanted 100 bucks. The shop owner proceeded to tell me that the chip was no big deal and that it could be made to shave with I said yeah if you want to lose half the blade and have a 3/8 razor (showed him on my razor ruler how bad it would be).