After essentially finishing cleaning up a nice old razor, I was briefly (like 45 seconds) soaking the blade in boiled water just to get the maas off, and soaked the end of the old very very thin wooden (I think) scales, and they bloody warped. One side curled so that when I close the blade it would hit the scale rather than go down the middle. I jammed a pocket knife blade between the curled side of the scale and the blade overnight, and this was enough to allow me to close the razor, but if I don't do it just right I bang the blade on the scale, which is no good after spending lots of time honing it.

The scales were too fragile anyway, but they had a very cool bear with a staff carving, so I was keeping them even though the functionality would be better with heavier scales.

Is there an easy way to unwarp the scale or am I hosed? I wonder if pulling the pins out and putting something heavy on each side of the scale might actually do it.