Quote Originally Posted by Euclid440 View Post
No Alcohol, it can melt some scales.
I've never had alcohol damage scales. OTOH, I recently touched-up the blade of a Cattaraugus Cutlery B52T "Indian Chief", with its spine protected by electrical tape and, when cleaning-off the tape residue with acetone, discovered (to my horror!) that it had "melted" part of the celluloid scales near the pivot pin.