Thread: Quick Favour - Scale Patterns

The majority of scales that I make came from one basic scale design that I made a while ago and some slight variations there of to acompany different sized blades. I really like the way they look, so, I haven't really needed to make anymore.

I designed them using photoshop, but any graphics/drawing program that supports bezier curves (ie. pen tool) should work just fine. First I scanned in some existing scales and some razor blades so that I had the flat profile view of them. Then I opened up the images and traced out the existing shapes with bezier curves so that I had the basic shapes to work with. After that I just messed around with the curves to come up with my designs. I'd digitally overlayed the scale design on the razors I scanned so I could get an idea of how the blade would sit in it. Once I was satisfied I just printed them out, transfered the template to cardboard and used those.

all of my scales start as the traced blade and then i draw the scales to fit and mode how i want to get the look im after
then i cut out the scales and the spacer trace that on the Ti and grind it close

that way i can least make sure every thing will fit and clear when im done