Thread: First horn scales...

Here's the finished result. You can see the patina on the razor from where I removed the rust, near the tip end of the spine and into the hollow. Adds character I think. The edge was ok though and it's honed well. Great edge. I'm happy with the result.

Great job! Horn is by far my favorite material to use, it's super durible, fogiving and above all gives it an amazing natural look to the scales.... I usually give mine a rounded out contour which I like but I have yet to make one without rounding he whole thing out.... Did u just flatten them to the width u wanted then just angle the edge off? What material do u usually go with?

Thanks Dafonz6987. I'm planning on doing another set soon and I'm going to take lots of photos to post as a tutorial. The horn is Cows horn. The blanks were pretty thin to start with, so by the time they were smoothed off and polished, they were too thin to dome. So the edges are just contoured. I need some thicker blanks to do a full domed scale. I quite like them thin though, as you can see the patterning through the material.

Nicely done Wayne your peening looks pretty good as well.

Thanks Jamie. I enjoyed this project. It honed great and shaves really well.