Thread: Circuitboard Scales

[Edit]: Steelforge pointed out that garythepenman put this together and told all about it in this thread. What follows is my initial discovery of this razor on a different website.

I was going to post this in the gallery, but it isn't my work and I don't know the guy who did it. It's publicly viewable here though:



I don't know what that board is coated with, but it looks very uncomfortable, and very uniquely geeky!

[Edit]: Steelforge pointed out that garythepenman put this together and told all about it in this thread. What you just read was my initial discovery of this razor on a different website.

It's different for sure, geeky.................. not, just a matter of taste.

Well I'm a geek and i love them. I think you'd have to coat the board in enough transparent something to make the scales thick enough but I'd love a razor with those kind of scales.

Originally Posted by Iron_Beard

Well I'm a geek and i love them. I think you'd have to coat the board in enough transparent something to make the scales thick enough but I'd love a razor with those kind of scales.

+1!!
Ken.

I design electronics in my day job..

Printed Circuit Boards are normally made with a fiberglass material. You can get them lots of thicknesses, but common is about 1.6mm (1/16 inch?) think. You could glue two together to build up any thinkness you want. The fibreglass is a pretty ugly translcent yellow/brown/straw colour, but the vivid green colour you see is called a soldermask and is printed onto the board and you can get it in lots of different colours.

This one looks like it was a "spare" board - it has not had any parts soldered to it as you can still see the gold flash on all the pads.

If you are going to work with this stuff, remember that the dust is nasty - just like any other fiberglass. Oh and one neat trick is that you can smooth edges etc with acetone and a cloth rather then sandpaper - it disolves the board material a little and if you do it right you can polish the edge nicely.

Cheers,
Ash.

Originally Posted by Ashley

If you are going to work with this stuff, remember that the dust is nasty - just like any other fiberglass. Oh and one neat trick is that you can smooth edges etc with acetone and a cloth rather then sandpaper - it disolves the board material a little and if you do it right you can polish the edge nicely.

Cheers,
Ash.

I didn't know that! I'll have to try the acetone - it doesn't have to be as uncomfortable as it looks then! Not that one's hand spends all that much time in contact with the scales anyway.