Thread: My first scales!! (Thanks)

After cleaning a bunch if oldies with the scales on I tried to take off the old ones on this Ontario Cultery. Of course I cracked them. But it gave me the opportunity to try my hand tools and your advise on something completely new, making scales! For a guy with six months wet shaving and no workshop im pretty satisfied for my first time out. Thanks for all the posts.





Thanks again
-MG

Those scales look great!

very nicely done! what kind of wood, it looks awesome. first time? even more impressive for that fact!

Originally Posted by silverloaf

very nicely done! what kind of wood, it looks awesome. first time? even more impressive for that fact!

+1

What finish did you put on the wood?

Joe

They're just pine from the hardware store with 3 coats of Minwax colonial maple and 6 or 8 coats of polyeurothane. I think it'd be nice if they had a bit more weight to them but i didn't want to spend money on nice wood when I had no idea how it would go.

Very nice. That stain really raised that pine to another level.

Tidy nice work.

Originally Posted by MG144

They're just pine from the hardware store with 3 coats of Minwax colonial maple and 6 or 8 coats of polyeurothane. I think it'd be nice if they had a bit more weight to them but i didn't want to spend money on nice wood when I had no idea how it would go.

Nice work MG144, if you want a bit of heft to the scales why not think about putting a heavier wedge in there? that way you get to keep some god work on the scales and balance the blade out a bit.

good job, man.

Originally Posted by MG144

They're just pine from the hardware store with 3 coats of Minwax colonial maple and 6 or 8 coats of polyeurothane. I think it'd be nice if they had a bit more weight to them but i didn't want to spend money on nice wood when I had no idea how it would go.

I like your thinking but keep in mind that you can use some expensive wood and still only have $2 invested!

[Not counting your labor. ]