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    Default To long blade or to short scales?

    Was looking through the local classified site in hope to find interesting things, and found next 3 razors from one seller. Personally I was a little bit confused, I understand if that was one razor (bad repair or what) but find 3 similar razors pretty weird

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    There is no description or measures of the blade or scales.
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    Looks to me as if it's the angle of the picture taken, I bet they close just fine , and if you ask for a picture of them closed you can find out for sure. Tc
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    Yeh optical illusion of the photo angle
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    Already asked, waiting for a reply...
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    there is a previous thread about a certain ebay seller that uses similar photo angles to make blades look in great condition then when your get them they look like this
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    It's the angle. Those are all Soviet blades the first and third are made by Stiz and I believe the second is a Trud. The first one is a Stiz "Vostok 3"(East 3) and it's been rescaled.
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    Otherwise it would just be way too freaky.
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    Agreed, the pictures are upside down, as evidenced by the shadow cast from the razors. Look at them upside down and the blades look respective to the scales. Optical illusion.
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