Thread: How to make and fit a lead wedge... the way I do it.

Awesome write up on the lead wedge. Lead is that classic look for old straights. Your work and attention to detail inspires me. I still need to make a jig like that regardsless of who has the patent. Thanks again for sharing.

A very well written, and photographed "How To;" Congratulations!
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That is pretty much the way I have made my lead wedges in the past but w/o the gizzy thing. I first saw that gizzy thing when outback made his some time back in the Butchered Blade thread. My last wedge I made out of brass I used a DMT & made my wedge perfectly flat that way & putting the angle on it at the same time by applying more pressure on one side of the wedge. Nice writeup!

Thank you all for your kind comments. I'm considering doing another on making a set of traditional styled horn scales. My way of course. I'll have to see how the pictures come out and if they make sense in a written description. I think editing to limited number of photos will be a challenge.
Here is the last picture of the finished wedge with the final polishing complete. It did not make it into the tutorial because I was limited in how many pictures I could post.
Karl

Nice!! Are those horn or plastic scales? Nice tute on the wedge.

I though the same thing about photo limit.

Glen showed me, that you can upload 10 photos, then reply to you own post and add another 10 and keep replying until you are done, so it is all in order and easy to read, see the post I did on a pic heavy thread on making a smiling edge. Don’t know why I hadn’t thought of it.

Here is a link to the thread, Make me Smile.

Originally Posted by outback

Nice!! Are those horn or plastic scales? Nice tute on the wedge.

They are black horn thinned to .105 thick from Masecraft Supply. The collars are brass beehive style from Austin Kennedy.

Well, I have posted in the Butchered Blade thread I believe how I make my horn scales. I did some honey ox horn awhile back. Perhaps I may have to post my method also so everyone can see the different ways of making them but to make a long story short, I make my pattern, cut the basic set out after flattening the inside (blade side) on a DMT. I then put them together with my double sticky sided carpet tape & I will then drill my pin holes. After that, I will go from left to right, right to left on my belt sander to get my contour I want & I finish off with progressions of wet or dry sandpaper from 240 all the way up to 3000 grit, then polish. My first pic is a brass wedge made using a DMT. It doesn't look thinner on the opposite end, but it is. The next one is a set of honey horn before going to the belt sander & the last two are after I finished them. The first finished pic looks like one is more flat on the top but it isn't, just the lighting or something.

Hey Steve, like the brass wedge for those honey scales, you have some talent Brother, Happy Holidays to you and all the other Gent's.

I like your method Karl, no messing around, fit and finish look great, getting it done nice with the carpenters trick.

Very nice write up. I notice you warned against polishing on the buffer. I have sanded up to 800 and used a buffer with white rouge with good results. I did this a few days ago because I was working with bone that seemed to take its best finish straight off the buffs.