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Well, today being Friday the 13th maybe I should have refrained from trying to split those scale blanks? :eek: I managed to ruin one blank by sawing waaaay too crooked, and the cross-cut blank...

Yeah, I probably meant to write "across" the grain. :rolleyes:

I think some of the boards I have of this wood are made up of staves which have been glued together, but sometimes it's hard to...

I cut up one of the more interesting looking boards of wood I had and made scale blanks outof it. I didn't even use up all the board. The pic is of the blanks. Yes, I made five blanks but only have...

I think those scales would be "waffer thin" if I tried that. :) They're pretty thin already, especially in the thinnest places.

They are not as nice as they look in the pictures, I assure you. Or maybe I just have very high standards, I don't know. Anyway, the scales are of uneven thickness due to my lack of practice with the...

Ok, I finished my first set of scales. Look at it as a "proof of concept" exercise. I wanted to see what it was like to make the scales, and what to watch out for when I make scales for the better...

Yeah, electric tools make things easier, and makes it possible to do the work quicker, but when things go wrong, they go wrong quicker too. :rolleyes:

I primarily want a band saw to "split" wood...

I just started making my first set of scales from the "mystery wood" I got at a dollar bin in a clothing store, which may or may not be "sheesham" wood. The only tool I have to cut the wood into...