Thread: Replacement scale washer question

No. They go under the rosette.

Like this:

Place rosette on pin, then the little flat washer. Then pass pin through one scale. Then install a wear washer.
( large flat washer .005 thickness )

Then blade, wear washer, scale, Lil flat washer, rosette, cut n file pin down.
Peen away.!!

@xiaotuzi
Well your setup looks way better than mine..besides more pics can't hurt!

Now that we have the correct washers in mind, i agree. Use the tiny washers under the rosettes. Its important.
Not that my two cents means much now that pics are posted and all but i just had to throw it in. Nice looking blade for sure.

Whiz, maybe when you unpinned it, it was missing the inner washers, the large flat ones that go between blade and scale. That's because they often didn't have them. There's debate about whether of not to add them when doing a rescale, but many people like to add them. I think its a good idea to add them in most cases, feels like the blade moves smoothly and eliminated wear on the inner surface of the scales.

Originally Posted by xiaotuzi

Whiz, maybe when you unpinned it, it was missing the inner washers, the large flat ones that go between blade and scale. That's because they often didn't have them. There's debate about whether of not to add them when doing a rescale, but many people like to add them. I think its a good idea to add them in most cases, feels like the blade moves smoothly and eliminated wear on the inner surface of the scales.

When I unpinned the scales there was one inner washer. Funny. I think since I only have one I will use it. In my usual impatient way...I want to get this pinned and honed!

Thanks everyone for excellent advice (as usual)!!

Do you remember what side it came from, it might be a shim.!
For centering the blade

Originally Posted by outback

Do you remember what side it came from, it might be a shim.!
For centering the blade

No, I don't think so. There was a fair bit of wobble...the scales were very lose and cracked at both ends...indeed the pins had no "head" on the reverse side from the picture. Someone was trying to remove the pins. There were pronounced striations to remove the heads of the pins. This is an old razor and the horn scales were very worn, hence my desire to re-scale.
Here was the before picture:

Mock it up with micro fasteners, n see how it fits.!

Funny...I just finished one similar to yours, the other day.

Another thing to keep in mind is the wedge. Did you mark it fro t or back or someway to know which way it was? Wedges are not always perfect. They will fit one way perfectly but the other way they can be off a bit. So be sure to check that really close before pinning.

Oops. Your replacing scales. Nevermind.

And here is the final product! The non-pivot part of the scales was already pinned and I didn't want to take the chance of ruining the scales...so I have one rosette and one non-rosette. I will get this on the stones tomorrow and take it for a test shave. Thank you again for your advice everyone!