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rayman;

I did that very thing once. I had a razor with broken scales. After removing them from the blade, I scanned the one, complete scale (the flat, inner side, of course) in order to generate...

Big Bubba;

That is a good idea for visualization! I skip that 'visualization' step since I usually already have my chosen scale material in hand, but, yeah, great idea!

Commiecat;

My god,...

That would be fun to try, but the only 3D program that I currently have access to (Blender) does not support export in either of the formats you listed in your thread.

I agree absolutely. :rock: It is perfectly possible to do everything I've indicated on a piece of paper and get excellent results. The computer is just another tool with - in this case - some tiny...

And here is the final result. The Micarta sheets have been rubber cemented to each other and the scale printout has been rubber cemented on top of them.

I’m ready to head off into the shop. But...

Last of all, we are going to stick our printout onto the scale material.

My adhesive of choice has always been good, old rubber cement. It is inexpensive, does not stain, goes on easily and (more...

If you have any concerns that your printout does not match the size of your scanned object, then the best thing to do is run a size test. What you see below is a printout of a measuring tape which I...

Here is the printout of the scale form. All I have to do now is cut it out and stick it onto my scale material.

I’m also using the layer visibility feature. Just before printing this out to paper, I turned off the visibility of the layers with the arcs and the background photo. See, I told you we didn’t...

Something to keep in mind is the appropriate use of the ‘layers’ features within your graphics programs. You can see that the elements of my drawing are arranged so that each has a separate layer. ...

I’m not going to cover all of the different aspects of making good scales, but here are a few hints.

Never forget to make your scales wide enough so that the bottom of the blade has no chance to...

I’ve loaded the image into my vector (linework) program and have used it as a background reference around which to design my scale form.

I have made a razor scale form which I think fits fairly...

I then went into a photo retouch program and masked out the black of the background. Yeah, yeah, I said it wasn’t necessary, but I like a clean presentation and it certainly helps keep the graphics...

Here is the scanned image of my blade. Pretty nice. :)

Here is a view of the scanner interface. There are so many scanner programs out there that yours is bound to be different.

I’m not scanning this with that white flip-up cover down behind the...

The first step is to put the blade down onto our flatbed scanner in order to get an image into the computer. Here is the blade lying on my old Epson 2400 Color scanner.

Some of you might be...

Here is the blade, removed from the scales. Notice that dimple slightly forward of the rear pivot hole. The scales were just slightly short and the man who put the wooden scales on this razor...

There seems to be some interest in seeing what the final, finished razor and scales will look like using the Micarta material which I made for my article on creating Micarta scale material. - ...