Small cast iron straight edges from Germany

[jhovel]

GergQ alerted me and a couple of others to an eBay item in Germany:
Abrichtlineal Messbrücke Messbalken 490x40mm, | eBay (http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/270636458014)
It's a small "camelback" style straight edge that is precision scraped and finished. It comes in blue, hammertone blue or hammertone green (no choices).
The price is quite good. So I contacted the seller in German for a shipping price and they got back to me today with an offer of Eu130.00 (~ AUS$174.50) complete, airmailed to Aus (German VAT deducted already).
I checked with machtools (Phil) and he suggested I post the find here as he considers it a prretty fair price.
If anyone wants assistance to check or confirm anything in German with them, let me know and I'll post suitable German text here.
Cheers,
Joe

[welder]

i wonder how much postage to Switzerland would be my fathers family lives there so he regularly visits.

[jhovel]

According to Versand nach Deutschland | Portokalkulator | Deutsche Post (http://www.portokalkulator.de/portokalkulator/std) (German Post office postage calculator) it would cost Eu30.00 ..... not cheap either, is it?
They weigh 5kgs packaged up according to the information I received. I should have mentioned that in the first post.
Joe

[Bryan]

Did anyone else get one of these? Mine arrived yesterday, 18 days from purchase. Very nicely packed, with a thick catalogue full of neat stuff. A lot of it is Chinese, but not all. Without pricing and closer photos it's hard to tell. Will see if I can assess how straight the straight edge is. Thanks to Joe for the heads-up.

[jhovel]

Good stuff Bryan! Thanks for letting us know. GIve us some more feed-back once you have checked it out - and show us what you are using it for!

Joe

[Bryan]

I was expecting to have to scrape it in, but I was horrified when I sat it on my plate. It rocked badly. Turned out to have matching dings on two opposite corners. I filed the burrs mostly down and it doesn't rock now. Can still see a whisker of light under it. Haven't spotted it yet. Will bring it to the course for show & tell. Interestingly, where I've filed it you can now see fine flaking marks.

[jhovel]

The original ad said it was precisoin scraped! That is a sad surprise....