The scales are perfect as far as I can see -- straight, polished, clean -- but where am I going to find a nice Easy Aces blade? As far as I can tell, the original owner of this one thought he'd bought a chisel, so he tried to break a porcelain sink with it, and when that didn't work he put it back in the box. It doesn't look like it was ever honed. Or shaved with. It's perfectly clean, except for that last half-inch -- that part's a doozy.