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:

Nice Pete. At leasr you can find a good home for stuff your not going to use and help others.

Thanks for offering these!

Its an honor and a pleasure.

Quite the gesture. Why I love this place.

Got the scales, THANKS!
He must be a perfectionist because a few years ago I paid for scales that unfortunately ended up not being as nice as these.
Ordered some shaving soap and a DE blade disposal box from his site and he generously added some other items! Shaving soap and bar soap smell nice but I haven't used them yet.

Wish I could put these scales on now!:cry


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Got them, Pete.

Very pretty. Thank you.

Do you remember what the finish was on 5a?

Pete,

These worked great for a little 5/8ths I have. I reshaped them a bit and refinished with Tru Oil.

I’m impressed how thin you ground the wood. Mine are always thick. Thanks again.

We communicated via email, though for other folks, I always use Birchwood Casey Tru-Oil with lots of thin coats.

We have communicated by email. For others, I really like Birchwood Casey Tru-Oil - lots of thin coats.

Gary, I'm guessing that you have had a chance to shave with the razor by now. How do you like the think scales? I really like the thin ones. Most of the ones I make these days are thicker, though still well rounded.

What I really don't like are the scales that come on Dovo new manufacture razors. It feels like I'm using a razor with canoe paddles attached to it.