The picture made these scales look too good to pass up. I normally would not go for a copper or brass (especially copper), but brass done right is tough to resist due to its unique characteristics. This is about as good as at gets for brass. Super high polished, excellent machining and these scales just pop. These should be relatively easy to maintain and you can keep these polished and super shiny. Yeah, there's nothing out there that looks like these do and makes your knife look like $1000 (expression). These scales are an easy high recommendation. I've done OG Aluminum and Brass. I'd like some OG Titanium next please!