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    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.
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    Nice going. Feels good to put new pants on them eh ?
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    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.
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    Yup sure does !

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benz View Post
    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)
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    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.

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    Looks good!


    Yeah Benz....listen to 10pups. Being able to breathe is kinda important!
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    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 !
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    Those look much better than the stock scales! I have a tough time with wedges too, we will get there eventually...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chevhead View Post
    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.

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