Thread: home made plastic scales

I've tried my hand at molding and casting, and Mr. Traveller, you have my utmost respect. Pictured here are some rough castings that I'm going to try and improve before making a more permanent mold. Wood is very cool for scales and I am going to improve my skills at that, but some of these intricate scales wil be lost if we don't preserve them. Here is my attempt. Traveller, if I may pick your brain on this molding/ casting stuff please PM me.

P.S. these are still rough cut outs.

Wow! Those look really neat. What kind of plastic did you use, and what did you make the mold out of, or is there another resource that you could point to?

Definitely worth preserving ! Well done.

That is great work. Those designs are a great replica of the oldies that are being lost. Keep up the great work.

tooo cool!!!

Thanks guys,

As for what I used it is a basic kit found at most hobby stores. The key is getting the original mold right from the "donor scales". It would be much easier if the donor scales weren't already on a good razor that I don't really want to seperate to make the molds from.

This is definately for my own satisfaction of course. I believe that if you want some copies of this type of scales, Traveller has some molds to make scales for sale along with other designs.

Oh kilowatt, these are really cool. I wonder what you used to cast them, they are really nice. I just read your last post so I guess the answer is a hobby store kit.

Al raz.

I don't care for plastic myself, but from a preservation / restoration pov it is an outstanding idea to make molds and duplicates while these scales still exist. Well done.

I don't think that these type of scales came on one particular brand. For instance the set to the right I had on a Clauss, but I have the same type on a boker. The one to the left is on a Cosmo blade. The center set is on a W&B. I'm guessing scales were provided to razor manufacturers through a vendor who sold to many razor makers.

That is very cool, and preserving some of the old designs is a credit to you - I definitely think that this is worth pursuing, and you should keep us updated on your progress and what you've learned along the way (a picture tutorial akin to Glen's would really be appreciated when you have the time).

Mark