What are you working on?

Here is a set that I tried to use layers of poly to build up the coats to match the onlays. Hard to see, but around the bolsters it has a warped, ripple like effect that just didn't look good to me. I ended up scrapping the scales and keeping the inlays. It took forever to remove the poly that stuck to the inlays. I am still waiting till I work up the courage to try to carve out the space for the inlays. I have somewhat gotten the hang of doing simpler designs, but the more complicated ones can be a pain. I started keeping fine sawdust of different types of woods to use to fill in gaps around inlays if there is any.

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Don't think the metal would flow at all if poured onto the scale. Would be all ripply like hot magma I'm thinking..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MYAFfeNO00

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Hahaha Mike B classic line. I love it.

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Have been working on pretty much nothing the last few months, life has gotten in the way. Have 2 weeks off starting Wednesday, so hoping to clear up some of the queue.

Chipping away at a new Christmas Day Razor since I sold my last one to a friend who just had to have it.
An old Bradford Case EkSeb with Christmas Tree Celluloid scales and a trashed blade.
Have not been able to find an acceptable EkSeb blade, so I settled on a nice Bradford Case wedge blade.
Should turn out nice. Anyone know what 'EkSeb' was about?

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Chipping away at a new Christmas Day Razor since I sold my last one to a friend who just had to have it.
An old Bradford Case EkSeb with Christmas Tree Celluloid scales and a trashed blade.
Have not been able to find an acceptable EkSeb blade, so I settled on a nice Bradford Case wedge blade.
Should turn out nice. Anyone know what 'EkSeb' was about?

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Tom... If ya ever need more glitter, I got ya covered.. [emoji6]
I got a whole bunch of it here from fixing gel coat in bass boats.
Its funny cause I've been thinking of making a set of scales that way.

Maybe a red white and blue for the 4th of July... [emoji631]
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Oh yeah! That bartop epoxy and some of THAT! Interestingly, these EkSeb scales seem to be based with gold glitter, designs in colored glitter, and a pile of clear over it.
The epoxy is a bit stinky and doing it in the cold is not optimal, I think.

I have cleaned and polished the scales as much as I want to, so I have just slathered them with wet type silicone.
Soaking this stuff in is awesome for old celluloid, Gents. Makes it pop and last, I think.
I have had great success with it.

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Oh yeah! That bartop epoxy and some of THAT! Interestingly, these EkSeb scales seem to be based with gold glitter, designs in colored glitter, and a pile of clear over it.
The epoxy is a bit stinky and doing it in the cold is not optimal, I think.

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Sounds about right.
Always work it from the brightest to the darkest color.
Same way when painting camouflage. [emoji106]

You WOULD know that, outback! So what type of clear do (or did ;)) they use on the boats?