Link to the auction I won.
Sorry my camera doesn't want to focus for some reason so I will post the auction link. This is the razor I got for honing practice. It just came in today and I have it soaking in a sterilizer. It has one nick in it and it looks as though from the look the nick came from the scales as they are extremely flexible. The steel looks a lot better IRL. I will do some minor buffing to help the blade. I was wondering if I should look into replacing the scales. They are replacements as far as I can tell as I can see where someone has lengthened the slot where the razor slides into it. There are no splits or cracks but the fact that just putting my fingers on them squeezes them shut is off setting. There is a chip in the scales that seems to correlate with the nick in the edge.
It looks like a 4/8.
Should I replace the scales? Where would be a good source?
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