Thread: Scale Question

As with many questions on the forum, this is a repeat. I am wondering about members preferences for scale material. You can include something you have not used but possibly hope to use in the future, or just stick with what you know. This question has been asked before as noted, so it might be interesting to look back and see if preferences have changed over time.
I won't limit the number of choices but preferences from first to....
Here is mine:
1). Mammoth Ivory
2). Horn
3). Bone
4). Celluloid

Plain ivory... I am doing my own seven day set in ivory... Diffferent kinds of razors.. Just my favorite ones to use.

My set has been long done.I like the white stuff also

My scale preference varies from razor to razor, based on grind, manufacturer, age of the razor, etc.
I like bone or ivory on an old Sheffield wedges, but would really not care for bone or ivory on a modern Dovo.

I'm a newbie, but i would have to break tradition and say Carbon Fiber... I love the was it looks and feels

Ivory - on old sheffield razors and the like, and ebony.

I can feel a song coming on - must resist, must resist...

Regards,
Neil

Live together in perfect harmony.....apparently this didn't even work in cobbling together the song. "We learn to live, we learn to give
Each other what we need to survive together alive"


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Originally Posted by Neil Miller

Ivory - on old sheffield razors and the like, and ebony.

I can feel a song coming on - must resist, must resist...

Regards,
Neil

As others have said, depends on the origin and style of the razor.
That being said:
Wood - Redheart or Olivewood
Horn
Synthetic - acrylic tortoise shell or pearl

Bone
Mammoth
Ebony.
I think ebony is much underrated. And all the good trees have now gone.

Classic natural materials would be my fist choice but even ugly plastic orange scales will do when she shaves like a dream.



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