I've bought a few that just didn't do it for me. But I think the one that takes the crown was an old beater with kind of cool "naked lady" scales on the bay. I could see it had quite a bit of honewear but somehow I missed the fact that the pivot end of the show side scale had about a quarter inch or more chipped off and had been filed down. It was visible in the photos, I just missed it. Not to mention that it had been honed *way* into the toe. I didn't pay much for it but it was still more than I should have. For a while I thought maybe I'd try making a silicone mold of the scales and making new ones from acrylic. But eventually I just listed it on the bay, with a very detailed description of the flaws, and set the buy it now price pretty low (less than I paid by quite a bit). Somebody bought it within 24 hours. I was just happy to be rid of it. I never even tried to put an edge on it. I did sand off the worst of the active rust before I mailed it out, although I noted than in the description as well.