Thread: First attempt at making my won scales.

I'm not sure this is the right section since I haven't begun anything yet, so please move it to the correct section if it's wrong.

Some background story and beginners mistakes.
A while back I bought a beautiful E.A Berg for almost nothing at a flea market. The scales where in perfect condition but the blade had some pitting and rust that I thought I would attempt to clean up. I got it home and took out my dremel (Mistake no. 1) and went at it. I got it somewhat cleaned and thankfully didn't mess anything up. What was left I thought I could just polish away with some metal polish, elbow grease and time (Mistake no. 2). After several hours of polishing the blade was shiny but the pitting stilled shamed it in my opinion. That's when I decided I would take it apart (Mistake no. 3), clean it up and pin it back with original scales. Since I lack the correct tools I decided to grind the pin down using a diamond rasp. I got the pin grinded down but was still unable to remove the pin, that's when I broke the scales. (Mistake no. 4 )

Future plans?
So now I have a beautiful, restored blade but no scales to put it in. But since I'm going away over the easter to my cabin where I have an unlimited supply of Birch wood and all kind of hardware I decided to make an attempt of making my own. I have read about custom scale making on the forum and decided to go with a "one-piece" since I was hoping to be able to salvage the washers from the wedge on the original scales and reuse them. I made a rough model in Inventor on how I would like the scales to turn out. I'm not sure if I want to keep them in the natural color of the wood or use some kind of wood stain on it.





I would like as much comments and feedback as possible on design, does and don't etc. before I start to commit to this and hopefully the razor will be brought back to life again.

Kind Regards,
Magnus