Hi all,
After looking at the amazing work on this thread, I'm kinda hesitant in posting my first attempts at new scales, but here goes.
My first new scales are on a Joseph Rodgers & Sons wedge. A blade that I really like and wanted scales that kinda matched the "brutishness" of this blade.
Scales are Jarrah, a hard wood from Western Australia, on the Janka hardness scale it sits just above Purpleheart. Very forgiving for a novice like me. Brass lined with Dovo pins. Spacer is from Silky Oak, another native Australian timber, more on that though in another post. As you can see there is room for improvement in the "squarness" of the spacer end, funny what those close up shots show.
Lessons learned from my first attempt; when using wood place a washer under the domed washer as it will dig into the wood as you peen it, makes it hard to get it tight. And make the arch of the scales a bit more pronounced at the tang end so that your finger can fit in the tang completly. Next post on this thread is my second attempt of re-scalling.