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Thanks Piet, Ben,
Special thanks to Ben, you gave me some good advice which I can take with me for my next scales... About the pin, it looks off centre because of the curved scale, but it's right in...

finished...
*sigh*

I'm glad to show you these pictures:...

Pff, it's been a while. Been busy with work, school and heavy drinking ;)
All the parts I needed are in, the pins and washers have arrived a week ago. The hammer was a big problem, ended up making...

Today I made another set of scales from the maple, more a conventional set....

Yes Ben, I've read them, thanks. Need to pay more attention.... Filled the hole with glue and it's a good seal. Drilled a hole next to it, that went well too.
I thought about waxing before fitting...

Ok, I'm here to inform you guys something went horribly wrong. After thinking a while I've settled for the glue.
These where the finished scales before, with the blade in between. Looks good imho ...

the pivot pin is easy, if you check my drawing you can see the hole is made in the flat part.
Mental note: Drill holes first!
On the back I was thinking of glue, but I don't want a glued scale...:(

hmm, right.. the pinning.. good point.. On the pivot point I've taken the pinning into account, but not the back.
The test scales might not be useless afterall. For now I'll just look at this...

Yesterday and today I've been busy with my test-scales, from the Maple wood.
To be honest, the wood isn't as bad as I thought! Got one scale cut and sanded, gonna start on the other one in a bit :)...

Hey Piet,
The Palasand is 8.6*103*900mm and the lovely maple is 5.5*55*450mm.

Since I'm probablly gonna need more then one go on the scales to get the desired results, it's not too bad it's way...

Hi, first update!
Just got back from the shop (Arnhemse Fijnhouthandel) and got some wood. The smallest piece of Cocobolo was 86 euro, which was a bit too expensive for me. Plus it was a rather...

Hey guys, this is the thread for my first straight razor project: custom scales.
I want to start out with something relatively easy. So I'm going for some wooden scales with no fancy artwork.

The...