All right, I tried searching on here and found where guys had talked about it but nobody saying that they had done it. I have a huge block of briar, cabachon with plateau across the entire thing. it is a pipe kit I had made for me years ago and have never gotten to trying to make a pipe (this thing is seriously massive).

Looking at it I can safely trim 1/4" off one side, should be enough to make two scales right (or just a touch over to allow for blade thickness when splitting them in half). I'm not sure if I'm going to try this cut on the small benchtop bandsaw or go ahead and change the metal blade on the big bandsaw and do it there.

My question, has anybody done a set of briar scales yet? the wood is very hard, dense, would it be better for a first time scale job to try one piece instead?

thanks dudes.

Red