Thread: Bone scales

Originally Posted by MJC

Very impressive first time restore...
thanks for sharing

Not so much a restore as a remodel. But yes my first. Thank you

Nice save there the bone came out great

Not to hijack the thread, plus being a little late to the party, but you got those bones as thin as ivory. Couple of questions: what is going on at the pivot? It looks like a brass bead in there almost which of course it isn't. How did you pin the razor? And echoing others....grinding bone is like the smell of a dentist drilling a tooth with a 1" diameter bit in a 3" diameter tooth.

Originally Posted by engine46

You did a great Job! I have made scales out of bone before but I did not coat them with anything. Here's a Wade & Butcher with a ship on the blade I finished close to a year ago. It also has a brass wedge.

Disaster.

Dropped it in the garage on concrete. Blade is fine but need to get more bone now. [emoji35] [emoji24]

Originally Posted by JReed

Disaster.

Dropped it in the garage on concrete. Blade is fine but need to get more bone now. [emoji35] [emoji24]

Awww man, that sucks!!!! I did the same thing on some I was making awhile back. I broke one of the scales so I glues it back together to make a pattern & made a new one. I then made them much thinner like Ivory & the razor came out nice! It's the one in this thread in post #16. I had to edit this after typing it wrong the first time.

Ugh...you have our sympathies....
You do have a pattern and this one will go much faste...

Originally Posted by MJC

Ugh...you have our sympathies....
You do have a pattern and this one will go much faste...

All he needs to do is put it back together with some CA & draw a pattern from it to make a new one. I did the same thing on some bone scales I was making. I decided they were too thick so when i was driving the pin back out, it had expanded & i broke a scale. You can see the finished razor in post #16 on this thread.

Originally Posted by Tarkus

Wow what a great job. You sir went thru alot of issues to produce such a wonderful result. The dust, the stench, the pure torture that bone does to tooling. I dig them alot.

If you're talking about mine in post # 16, Thank you very much. If you are talking about the original posting, he did a great job from pet store bone.

Already working on the new side. Only the one scale broke so using the other as the pattern. Luckily I had a piece of bone with enough meat to it to make it work. Will update later.

Originally Posted by JReed

Already working on the new side. Only the one scale broke so using the other as the pattern. Luckily I had a piece of bone with enough meat to it to make it work. Will update later.

I see they loped pretty thick. Did you see my post #16? Try & get them as thin as you can & you'll feel so much better but make the other one first. Mine were thick at first but I wasn't happy with them which is how I broke one scale getting them apart but I got them as thin as 1.5 mm each & it came out really nice.