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I know what you mean Jimmy. I tried to keep as much as possible but the pile side was quite deformed compared to the show side and, even now, they are at the limit in terms of balance. I guess that's...

The idea of the angle is that you attach one side of the scale on top and the other underneath - making sure that they line up. You are then assured of having a hole that is 90 degrees in both...

I've been given another suggesion for drilling the holes - one that came from a knife-maker - it's simply a pice of angled aluminium with an oversized hole drilled through and clamped in position on...

No - maybe next time I post some WIP pictures.



Having sawn the length I just used a belt sander holding the flat surface down until I was at about the right thickness while still having enough...

I worked on this since the first post and learned quite a lot along the way. Here's how they turned out.

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The one marked R is red deer and the S is for Sika. I started playing around with the left hand piece as it has the most natural and uniform scale shaped curve - cut it into two more or less uniform...

One of the brush turners over here sent me some pieces of antler that are too small for brushes but look OK for scales.
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My problem is I've only ever used flat plates for scale making so...