Thread: First Amber Acrylic scales! Material Ramble lol and suggestions.

Yes, good advice from Jerry, you can make a quick and dirty dust collector from cardboard and duct tape or MDF and plywood, that can catch most of the dust with a shop vac. A strong fan blowing across your face and out the garage door also helps, and wear a respirator or at least a good dust mask.

You are making good progress, glad to see you are sticking with it.

Make you wedges thinner and more tapered, measure the thickness of the blade where you want it to touch the top of the scales when closed, and make your wedge that thickness at the widest part.

You can double stick tape the wedge to your finger or a Popsicle stick to sand a thin wedge to shape on the belt sander.

A wide wedge or spacer looks clunky.

Use original wedges as templates. The old guys really did know what they were doing, save all your old parts and pieces for reference.

Nice looking scales, what are you polishing with? I like Novus for plastics, works well with horn also.

Originally Posted by Euclid440

Yes, good advice from Jerry, you can make a quick and dirty dust collector from cardboard and duct tape or MDF and plywood, that can catch most of the dust with a shop vac. A strong fan blowing across your face and out the garage door also helps, and wear a respirator or at least a good dust mask.

You are making good progress, glad to see you are sticking with it.

Make you wedges thinner and more tapered, measure the thickness of the blade where you want it to touch the top of the scales when closed, and make your wedge that thickness at the widest part.

You can double stick tape the wedge to your finger or a Popsicle stick to sand a thin wedge to shape on the belt sander.

A wide wedge or spacer looks clunky.

Use original wedges as templates. The old guys really did know what they were doing, save all your old parts and pieces for reference.

Nice looking scales, what are you polishing with? I like Novus for plastics, works well with horn also.

Thanks for the feedback and advice!

I actually sand then I use black compound (don't know what it's called) then on to white compound... I've had a few people be surprised that I was getting it as polished as I was with those compounds on my buffer but it works great for me... I'll have to look up novus and get some, I love trying new products

Also I have some newer scales I've posted about if u want to check those out and a new razor I made