Thread: Scale material choice

What do you like your razors scales to be made out of, like Composite/ wood/ horn.
Thank you.

Pretty much anything other than wood but my favorite and what’s on the majority of my razors is ivory

Ivory, Kirinite, Horn, Tortoiseshell, Camel Bone, acrylic, G10, like TC, I'm not a fan of wooden scales.

All materials, maybe not plastic.
They all have different attributes. At the moment I'm all about horn..

The more I do the more I favor bone.
Works great, stable and looks good.

All of them. I go through phases of enjoying the varied finishes. At the moment, I’m enjoying the bright options in g10, micarta and resins

I'm a sucker for MOP.

And the only thing I'm not fond of is plastic.

The cardinal rule for me is that the scales should fit the razor, so well... Sometimes wood is the best option for example (my favorite razors are one of the rare cases where vintage razors had wooden scales), as can be sculpted ivory.

I am curious why you don't like wood scales. I personally like the feel of olive wood scales. I also found wood to be a good substitute material when I made the scales myself. Maybe I am missing something.
(PS: I am an old 325 man)

Lignin vitae and walnut make excellent scales

Originally Posted by rolodave

Lignin vitae and walnut make excellent scales

Yeah, I'm in love with Walnut lately (Bastogne, English, Claro-I love it all!). I've really been wanting to try Lignum-do I need to go ahead and order a new bandsaw blade?

edit: I like to let the razor tall me it wants. I've tried about all the man-made and natural materials at this point (except for ivory). Hard to beat horn on a vintage Sheffield, for instance (though I have a couple in bone and even ALVS abalone). Some of the synthetics are just mind-blowing; check out the British supplier Rothko and Frost, for example.