Thread: Can I repair pivot end of bone scales?

If they were mine making new ones would be not much if any more work than a repair.

That being said they look like good practice so win or loose you would be ahead.

Great point. I do have a totally irrational fondness for vintage things, so I want to keep them on that count.

But you do remind me, I should really track down some bone and make some for a few other razors I have that have broken scales.

Does anyone know where I could source bone in Canada? Does anyone have any important advice for me on how to make bone scales? To give a sense of my competence, I would feel very comfortable making them out of wood, and I have all of the tools to do so, so mostly I guess I need to know what things you would do with bone that would be different than wood.

Nothing that I'm aware of.

Rezdog has worked a bit of bone, he would have some insite to it, if there is.

I did a repair with CA, on a thin set of bone scales. Very thin, like yours. Over time it has changed color, and sticks out. But I've yet to try using talc, instead of soda.





Unbelievably strong, just not pretty anymore.

Bone is more dense than wood but you can use most of your wood tools. Raw bone is much softer and more forgiving than beached bone. Bone it easy to shape with a file. I typically use a jewellers saw for cut out, a series of files to shape them and gravers to carve. I have done metal liners and G10 liners. None of it is as slick as outback’s 3/4 Oz fibreglass method. Those scales are so thin that they would get quite a bit thicker with a preformed liner. There is no saying that you can’t make a set and eventually fix those ones. The cool thing with bone is you can colour it with tea and turmeric and make it look older than it is.