Thread: Fresh Scales

Got tired of the old junky plastic scales on my own favorite razor,a Dovo I bought in Germany about 30 years ago.I had a extra piece of maroon linen micarta so I whipped these out this afternoon with a purple heart wedge.

Nice going. Feels good to put new pants on them eh ?

Very nice. Last week I made a set of scales for my Shumate out of purple heart. Beautiful wood but I sneezed my butt off from the sanding dust.

Yup sure does !

Originally Posted by Benz

Very nice. Last week I made a set of scales for my Shumate out of purple heart. Beautiful wood but I sneezed my butt off from the sanding dust.

2 words,,, Dust Mask... 2 more,,,,Or Die :<0)

A respirator is standard equipment in my shop when grinding blades and sanding anything using power.I've done a few restorations and in the middle of some of my own razors and I finished a restoration the other day and my wife said you need to do something with your razor,those plastic scales look horrid.I had to agree.

Looks good!


Yeah Benz....listen to 10pups. Being able to breathe is kinda important!

One thing I do need to do is come up with a better way to make wedges ! I keep sanding down the end of my finger then shooting the wedge across my shop !

Those look much better than the stock scales! I have a tough time with wedges too, we will get there eventually...

Originally Posted by Chevhead

Looks good!


Yeah Benz....listen to 10pups. Being able to breathe is kinda important!

I'm a machinist by trade so wood chucking is kind of alien to me. To be perfectly honest wood has to be the orneriest most unforgiving crap for me to work with. I started out clamping the wood in a mill vise on my horizontal milling machine and cut the slabs with a screw slitting saw. This set of scales will be my last..........I'm just not equipped for it.