Look closely at those ebay pictures if you're hunting bargains

[johnmrson]

Here's another good example of making sure you look very closely at those eBay photos if you want to get a bargain.

This is the expanded photo as it appeared in ebay.

It doesn't look like anything flash. You can tell it's got some chips out of the blade so I reckon most people, even if they got as far as the expanded photo would just move on.

So I copied the photo to my PC and cropped it and then blew it up.

So for UK11 pounds (that's about $16 / $17) I've picked up a Puma High Class. Sure the blade needs a little bit of work but nothing an hour of work with a DMT and hones won't fix.

I got nerdman to put aside a nice piece of blonde horn for me a little while ago, just waiting for the right blade. I reckon I might have just found it.

 

[talibeard]

Good luck with your restauration and don't forget to show us the pics after the job is done!

 

[TenorClef]

Now i would have just walked away from this one as to my mind you would have to reduce the size of the blade a fair bit to make it usable.....but hey if you've got the skills and you make it into a nice shaver that's great.