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12-21-2014, 10:09 AM #1Senior Member
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My first scales!
Finnished my first pair of scales today!
I bought the razor cheep online and was also one of the first razors I honed myself. It had a some ugly plastic scales so this is defenitely a upgrade!
The wood is guayacan that my father brought home from Ecuador once.
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12-21-2014, 10:17 AM #2Senior Member
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looks very fine. well done for first set of scales, hope when I get round to trying they end up anywhere near as good.
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12-21-2014, 10:32 AM #3Member
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Lovely work! Have never seen scales crafted from this wood. Very nice streak pattern.
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12-21-2014, 12:04 PM #4
Nice job!
Much nicer than my first ones...
Nice pining job to boot!
Next set try and thin them down more. It helps with the overall look.
Really nice job.
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12-21-2014, 01:51 PM #5I used Nakayamas for my house
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Shape looks great. For future reference if you are going to make more scales, it is better to use a wedge rather than spacer. When spacer is used the scales may bow in with time. With a wedge, the scales will not deform.
Stefan
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12-21-2014, 02:12 PM #6Senior Member
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Nice clean lines and very cool looking wood.
dooey likes this.Good judgment comes from experience, and experience....well that comes from poor judgment.
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AKA lignum Vitae,on the Janka scale,one of the hardest woods known.they look great.
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12-21-2014, 05:30 PM #9Senior Member
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Beautiful set of scales, thank you for sharing your work,,,,
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12-21-2014, 09:16 PM #10Senior Member
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Good looking work. I wish my first would have looked that good.
Charlie
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