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

Looks good to me! Way to jump in As soon as I get back to my shop I'm gonna try to whip out some to replace the SS ones on the wapi. Got any more planned?

Hate to say I'm not a huge fan of the grain. Other than that, in my very inexperienced opinion, I think the work is fantastic and that the idea of using tiny bolts and nuts is great.

Congrats.

I really like what you did with the nuts on the show side would love to see pics of the reverse too...
What wedge did you use, it looks like maybe brass????
If so great choice to match the pins (hardware)
As to the wood choice, and finish choice, that really doesn't matter what we think of the look, as the saying goes beauty is in the eye of the beholder..... it looks as though you did a very good job though, and that is really what counts....
(I like the mahogany look BTW)

I think it's awesome how easy you make it sound. "I just slapped these together since I had a few minutes."

They look very nice.

I think you did a great job.

John

The scales look great... I like those "low rider" bolts.

Gives me ideas... the bolt countersink into the scales.

Nice work.

Very fine job, in my opinion. Like the naturally look of the wood.

I´m really suprised about the Florena tube at the picture. Its an shave product, produced primary in east germany. I never had thought, that it is available in canada.

Originally Posted by smythe

Gives me ideas... the bolt countersink into the scales

That would be awesome.

Guys have done the countersunk bolts thing- in my opinion it looks pretty bad. The bolt side ends up being flat for the most part while to maintain the "adjustability" the other side protrudes. Maybe try sinking the bolts halfway and then sanding the screw head?