Thanks for all the awesome information and great replies. After reading through these, I am going to go with that these scales are rotting. I have been trying to get some pictures that show it, but it is still small at the moment and hard to see in an image. But the blade corrodes very fast where it is close to the scales, and the scales are discolored there as well as another place on the edge, and there is also some corrosion on the blade there as well. So, it looks like I will be rescaling these.


Thanks again for all your great feedback.