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I think people here are usually very polite, you especially see it in posts when someone shows a "first try".
There will always be someone who takes offense of the help people trying to offer.

I...

Never had any problem with the fancy stuff, that's when I post things like "not my style but beautiful work".

If the original scales are totally shot it really doesn't matter what you use for the new scales, the only original part is now the blade anyway.
If someone down the line want to restore it to as...

Some of us like to keep our razors as original as possible but then a lot of us still want to use them.
So then we will clean, polish and hone them up.

Some razors got serious corrosion problems...