Thread: Made my first set of scales

Nice scales, the shield should be inlayed. It is a bit of work with a drill press and cleaned up by hand, with a parser drill or router, make sure it is centered.

Grind and Polish your pins with a 3-4 in piece of bamboo chopstick with a dab of diamond paste or rubbing compound and polish with good metal polish on the stick. Drill a small divot on the end of the stick to match the pin and keep it from dancing around go easy to not hit the scale or make a shield from a plastic water bottle.

Were you able to save the old double stacked collars? They are very cool and the old scales looked good and should clean up well. I like using original collars.

You can double stick tape your scales to a paint stick to save your fingers when thinning your scales on a belt sander, nice work.