Thread: Possible cell rot, Hayashi Diamond.

I recently got a Hayashi Diamond 888.

When I first picked it out of the case I noticed that there were black rust spots on both sides of the blade near the toe, I suspect that it might be in the early stages of cell rot that's either originated from the wedge and has yet to affect the scales or that the wedge is made of celluloid and the scales are made of some other plastic so that the cell rot is isolated to just the wedge(this is what I'm hoping for if it is in fact cell rot since the scales are gorgeous.)

The rust spots are not easy to see in the pictures because I polished them off as as well as possible with some autosol on a cotton swab. but it's possible to see them in the second picture: