Thread: Scale Inlays

Originally Posted by Substance

http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...aving-jig.html
This was my effort with a bit of tutorial if it helps

What I'm thinking of doing at first anyway is something like an inlaid script on the scales. Thinking of a proper inlay material has got me perplexed a bit due to lack of general knowledge. A smooth flowing cursive word is the effect I'm after. Thinking once I get the script cut in maybe braising silver into the cavities, then sanding it down till the script looks clean and flush with the rest of the scale. Basically inlaying a scaled down version of this script into a scale is my goal

Before folks like USA knife maker started making water jet cut patterns for escutcheons/inlays, what a lot of folks would do would carve the inlay shape into the piece of material and then use a metal with a VERY low melting point to cast a pattern which they then used to cut everything.

ok, so what about re-installing an inlay that was removed with acetone...... and let's say the scales are acrylic..... how would one go about refitting the inlay into acrylic? other than CA glue ontop.... ie I would like to get it flush.

same principles apply
you need to cut the indent for the shape & depth of the inlay from the scale, then set it in with an acrylic compatible glue
fill with extra glue then sand flush to suit the scales