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12-05-2014, 01:47 AM #1Senior Member
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Picked up another razor
This is a Shumate 135 and I was wondering what the scales are made of?
Is that faux bone?
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12-05-2014, 01:48 AM #2Senior Member
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Can you repost your picture. Thanks
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12-05-2014, 03:44 AM #3Thread derailment specialist.
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Hard to say for sure what the scales are made of from that one pic.
I don't think it's jigged bone or stag. Gut feeling I get is that it is a plastic of some sort cast to resemble jigged bone. I've seen similar scales on pocket knives. Some of them survive quite well, others shrink and crack usually without any gassing issues.
Look at them under magnification and try to see if the surfaces are smooth or have the tiny capillary holes like bone.
Great looking old razor.
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12-05-2014, 03:55 AM #4Senior Member
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The pins look original and I would guess plastic also. Time frame of manufacturing makes me think that.
pretty cherry Shumate :<0)Good judgment comes from experience, and experience....well that comes from poor judgment.
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12-05-2014, 11:15 AM #5Senior Member
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Nice one. My guess is a type of plastic.
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12-05-2014, 02:07 PM #6Senior Member
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nice. post some closer pictures if you can.
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