Thread: My first re-scaling...comment please

Hi. This is my first attempts at rescaling a str8. It's an old Boker King Cutter that I partly restored the blade. The scales were broken so I had to redo them. I took mahogany wood, cut slabs of about +1/8", tape them with double face tape, drew the scale contour from original, marked and drilled the holes since the scale were still flat. Then I proceeded very carefully to sand the contour down to the mark with a 1" band sander than finished by hand sanding the sides and top/bottom parts. Took them apart, sanded the inside flat. For all the hand sanding I used 400, 800, 1500 sand paper. Finished them with hand rubbed boiled linseed oil.

Fasten the blade with nuts and bolts from Microfasteners.com. Didn't have the courage to pin then. I thought the little nuts were a bit thick so I sanded them down to about 2/3 of original thickness and rounded the head a bit. I used the bigger washers #0w inside and out. The smaller ones looked small, to small.

Honed the blade on Norton 4000, King S-3, Norton 8000 than strop. Don't have any finer stone. Just finished shaving with it and it's a shaver, maybe not the best in regards to your shave ready str8 but it's ok for me until I get finer hones.

Please leave any comments, good or bad, on my work.


Jacques
Quebec, Canada