Thread: Modern Style

This ist a beautifull Bengall Razor with an edged balde. The scales are from a not black ebony wood. The middle pin is a massive brass rod, that I glued in the wood. The finish is again with CCL-Oil. Hope you enjoy it.

Nice! A question: do you shape the spacer with the scales? How do you get the proper shape?

Nice work. May I recommend looking up the thread on making a home-made light-box for photographing small items. Then the photography will do this babe a real dose of justice.

Really cool. I like the way the pattern in the burl compliments the etching on the tang!

@Kyle76: Yes, I sand the spacer togheter with the scales. I cut the brass approximately with an electric jigsaw. Than I pin all together and sand it on one level.

@FiReSTaRT: And I thought, the photos are not so bad Mhhh, perhaps I had to read this thread.

@BBSWANNABE: thx

Originally Posted by Buddel

@Kyle76: Yes, I sand the spacer togheter with the scales. I cut the brass approximately with an electric jigsaw. Than I pin all together and sand it on one level.

Would you mind explaining your process further? Once you pin for shaping, do you leave everything together? At what point in the process do you achieve your final shape of the scales and spacer? When do you add your finish?

Oh my good, how could I explain with my weak english

First i cut the wood in pieces of 7mm. Than I clue the two plates with a sheet of an old newspaper together. Then I draw the form of the wood and cut it out with the jigsaw. Then I work with a rasp and the dremel, to make the rawform of the scales.
After that I sand only with hand, beginnig with grid 100, 180, 240, 400, 500, 600.
Then I use the micro-mesh soft pads from 1.500 to 12.000.
After that the wood is still shiny. Now i cut the two scales with a razor blade on the newspaper in two pieces. Then I use a beltsander to go from the 5-6mm down to 4-5 mm. Thats the thickness I prefer for my scales. Then I drill the holes, all of them, for every scale separate.

Now i use the CCL-Oil with 1 or 2 coats to close the pores of the wood. Then I took a piece of brass, thickness 2mm and sand this on a beltsander to a light wedge. Use the scale as an jig and draw the form of the brass and cut this. Make the hole on the right place in the spacer and pin all togheter. Then I use the dremel and micro mesh to sand all to an homogen form.

After that I make the finish with the CCL-Oil. So I have only very little problems at this one pin, to get a mirror-finish. Nearly invisible. Now you have only stick all together and to pin, first the Blade, than the middle pin (first glue the middle pin, when you use the brass rod).

After 4 hours of concentrated working, you have nice scales.

I hope someone will understand, what I wanted to say

Your english is gooder thun mine!

(I thought the pictures were good too)

Nice work!

C utz

Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT

Nice work. May I recommend looking up the thread on making a home-made light-box for photographing small items. Then the photography will do this babe a real dose of justice.

I could not find your little information of a thread through the forum.
Tried:
home-made light-box
homemade light box (though box is too short a word)
lightbox

I know there was a thread about this over at B&B here, but even if you find it here, I bet it will link to this howto which tells you all you need to know.

It's a really simple construction but gives really nice results. Oh, and there is a followup at the Strobist with some more ideas of how you can use it.