If I am understanding this correctly you marked out the scale material with the shape of the bolsters and removed material so that they would sit flush with the scales? Is this the usual method for transferring bolsters because somehow I had the idea that some guys set the bolsters on top of the scale material and tapered the bolsters so they would not catch on anything.....and a general question, kind of off thread, how were bolsters done in the factories that originally produced them on their razors? I kind of saw dies that a molten scale material would be poured into and the whole works shaped and polished from a near finished state. Anyway, first time or 200th time......looking good!