Thread: Why did he waste his time? Scales and Razors.

On a recent post I showed a W&B with scales I made using Black Horn and Pearl acrylic inlays. I was asked to show other scales I've done. So here are just a few of them.

Now eventually you may ask, Why did he waste his time on these things? Well the short answer is , I learned a lot.

I learned how to build a variety of scales. To me , custom isn't cutting out some Micarta and calling it done. That's belly button material , everyone has one.
I learned to make my own acrylics. I learned how to inlay. To design. How to handle a variety of materials.
As to the razors?
Well it taught me how to handle a variety of situations. Better to learn on these than mess up someones pride and joy CVH, W&B or whatever as I'm restoring it.
Also.
I was told you can't do file work on tempered steel. It will never work. Can't be done. OK. I wanted to know just how far you can push it.Doing it on untempered steel is easy. Tempered , finished blades is another animal altogether.
Etching? I learned a thing or two. All of these blades were blank.
Here too this taught me valuable lessons in handling finished, tempered steel and just what you can do with it.
Several of these were done for a competition to see just what you can do with a finished blade. I'll tell you later what they are.
I'll probably get banned, but just enjoy them for what they represent.
Learning.

The first razor is the W&B with the Black Horn with pearl inlays that started the discussion and questions.
The rest of the photos are of a more complicated inlay with Rose wood, ivory, Brass and the modifications I did to a finished razor with the thumb notch, spine work, blade revisions etc.
It's all base on an angular perspective from the angles of the heel matching the toe of the blade, the spine bevel, the bevel off the nose of the blade, the tail has a matching bevel cut on the underside and you can see how small I was able to make the jimps on the underside of the spine ( the thumb notch wasn't there) as well as the rest of the modifications.
It was a GD.