Thread: New horn scales.... the process.

I made a deal with Harry or kd5tmu as you may know him for a custom pen in exchange for a razor that has his name on it.

I decided along the way that I wanted to try to do something really nice for the scales and since I had some bison laying about it was a likely cantidate.

He had also said that his razors are all white. Now we want to give the black razors a chance too don't we?

Somewhere I have pics of flattening the horn but we can deal with that another day.

I started with a whole horn, what you see is a half that has been pressed flat.
I'll deal with working with whole horn another day.
Part of the reason I am listing this is to make sure people can deal with horn scale blanks. I sent some of this to Joe C and he said e had trouble, so I wanted to check it out.

1) grind flat.... it's really thick stuff !!!
2) mark out section that looks flaw free
3 cut out
4) sand major grooves left by coarse paper out
5) polish to look for flaws ie. major grain, chuncks missing
6) make template
7) trace it out

Tomorrow, cutting out and shaping scales.
Maybe even some pinning !!!