Thread: Yet more scales and lessons learned

I'm still making my fair share of mistakes, but the wood kinda bailed me out on this one.
Black Cherry Burl with Black Walnut Wedge:

Beautiful scales, well done.
The pins on the wedge end seem unusually close to the end though, any reason for that?
Grant

Looking very good, just a great choice of woods. Love to get my hands on some of that Black Cherry Burl.

Bob

Good Job, I like what you ended up with, they are very well done, good looking razor you have there.
I hope to be that good some day, just not today!!!

Have many great shaves with it!!

tinkersd

Lovely wood. And you've done several things better than I ever have. Your wedge looks perfect. Keep it up.

That burl looks really nice. Keep up the good work. As for the pins if your putting them there to keep the scales tight against the wedge try thinning the scales some more. Either way I like the look of them.

Great wood selection for the scales and wedge, real nice.

Thanks guys, your comments are all spot on. Glen (by PM) as well. I'm pretty happy with them, but the next set will have a shorter length wedge, the pins won't be so close to the end, and the pins (hopefully) will be better alligned (been struggling with that last one).

Each set gets better.....the hallmark of learning!

I don't know about others, but I like to use a seamstress' measuring tape for pins. It's flexible, so I can wrap it slightly over the edge of the scale. Also, with some of its numbers in different colours, I'm able to see the centre much easier. It may be odd, but it works like a charm for me.

I was using the workbench for the stuff in my other thread in here and thought I'd fix this one up a little, too.