Thread: Practice Scales

Gents, the workshop thread is full of folks that are somewhere along their journey of learning to make/pin straight razors. I have a bunch of scales I can't use in my business because I made some kind of mistake on them. Some are only good for practice. I would use many of them on a personal razor, though have already scaled them.

I'm donating these scales, including free worldwide shipping, to SRP. Interestingly, a regular #10 envelope ships worldwide with three stamps and I can put a pair of scales in a #10.

We have folks who want to try making scales, but don't have the tools. No problem, got you covered. We have folks who want learn how to recover from mistakes, got you covered. Want to practice with a new material? Have you covered.

Scales 1-5 are horn and bone. They are only good for practice and won't make good scales, unless you want a banana shaped horn scale.

The rest of them mainly fall into these categories.

Mistake in drilling the holes - they can be filled with the right kind of epoxy and re-drilled.
Mistake with shaping them. Most of these were shaped until too small or shaped where they are a straight line. I think you can use the small ones on a 5/8 razor.

Want a pair? Send me a pm with your address and which ones you want. Please let me know if you are early in your journey or have limited tools. I don't want to send a pair that you can't succeed with.

Now for the pics: