a labor of love.
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a labor of love.
I gave up on wedges, I just put a nice spacer in the ones I rescale.
Watch those wedges around belt sanders, they toss them all over the place. My first wedge shot off the belt sander, when over the balcony & landed in the grass,,,never found it. :(
It Was The Orignal One. Made The Scales The Same Thickness As The Originals. (Dial Calipers) So I Don't Understand....
Did you pin the wedge end first ? I always check the pin length to make sure it is not too long in the least. I also start to peen on the down side of the wedge. Maybe it's just dumb luck but I have only had trouble with one. I took it apart and started over and then it went fine. I have also bent one trying to get the wedge snug. Pin was just a hair too long I think. Now if anything I make the pins to short when I file them down flat.
Yes. I did pin that end first.
I don't know what I am doing wrong?
I did make them shorter then I usually do. Maybe I need to go MORE?
Guess I will just have to keep making them and trying stuff.
Thanks for the advice... anything I can try to help speed up my learning curve... LOL
Ed, a nice job! That wood don't like to bend like horn or ivory, IMO. Even if you pin the bottom and get a nice splay from a tapered wedge, the bottom pin will bend as you do the top, same result. Hard wood seems to require an even spacer which is sized to the way you want the blade to sit in the scales. I would just unpin the bottom and make a spacer to fit. OR thin out the wood so it will bend!
Pretty sure!
Fill in the cracks around the wedge with liquid wood,,,,, let dry,,,,, sand a little,,,then tell everyone that it is a new type of exotic wood wedge. :beer1:
Never wood have thought of that. I haven't ever made that type of scale before. I'll shut up now :ziplip: