Quote Originally Posted by gcbryan View Post
This is slightly off-topic but I've read of people trying to straighten scales that were deformed causing the blade to not be centered and to hit one side of the scales.

The technique I read of always involves boiling water and sticking the scales in. It seems sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

I haven't needed to try something like this yet with razors but I have worked with shaping or flattening plastic for other purposes. I've done this by putting it in the oven at no more than 250 F for about 30 seconds (on a cookie sheet).

You just take it out, put a book on top until it cools and if it needs to flatten more, you just repeat the above steps.
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Has anyone here tried that with razor scales? I could see this being a problem possibly with celluloid but for other types of plastic this would seem to work.
I've done the boiling water fix and it does work, 20-30 seconds in boiling water, reshape the scales then set them with cold water