Thread: Beginning Scale Maker Questions

It kind of depends on the flexibility of your material. Epoxy sheets, are they G-10? If it is, G-10 is crazy strong and it’s hard to get it to bend and flex properly unless it is fairly thin. The other issue is the dust is quite toxic. Use a good vacuum or dust collector with proper filtration and a quality respirator. I’ve made a few sets of scales and the thickness and the wedge are the two kind of tricky parts. The material needs to flex and move as the razor rotates. Not enough flex and it puts a lot of stress on the hinge pin and the razor will have a hard time staying tight at the pivot. It’s true with most materials. People sometimes don’t understand how the wedge and tang taper work together with the flexibility of the scales to give continual even tension at the pivot through out the full rotation. It sounds a lot more complicate than it actually is. Basically the scale need to be thin enough to flex and the taper of the wedge should match the taper of the tang with enough thickness to allow the blade to nestle into the scales at the right height.
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