Thread: Anyone familiar with Tor-Tis? would it work well as scale material?

Tor-Tis

I guess celluloid is already tried and tested but this material seems interesting to me.
It sounds like it would be very easy to make a pair of good looking scales out of this, just warm it up under the tap, cut out the scale shape and then hand sand and polish, only downside that I can think of is that you'd have to avoid getting the scales too hot but that wouldn't be a problem for me.

How thick is that stuff?

On the site it says .035”-.045”, so it's on the thinner side but if it's rigid enough(and not too rigid) I think it could work. I've never handled tortoise but aren't most ivory scales in that ballpark?

It's made for pic guards...way too thin for razor scales.

the stuff is very pliable at that thickness; it's also used for softer pics made for strumming, it would be good for lining scales and wedges, but not as a standalone handle

At this point it would probably just be better to go with celluloid but would it work if you epoxied two pieces together so that it was thick enough?

Originally Posted by Baxxer

At this point it would probably just be better to go with celluloid but would it work if you epoxied two pieces together so that it was thick enough?

It could look terrible epoxied together.I have done restos with Ivory (one side) that was as thin as .050 to match.
You need a Minimum of .075 to use any material.
The material you are looking at will not work for scales.JMO

what if you glued it to some clear or yellow acrylic? i've looked at it before but didn't get it because of the thickness, though i hadn't thought of gluing it to a backing.