This just occurred to me while responding to another thread. Is there any place to go to buy scale blanks?

By "scale blanks" I mean wood/celluloid/bone/etc that has been cut down to the approximate size and shape needed for scales, but is rough and oversized so it can be carved down to the exact shape you want.

The reason is that I've got a nice little razor with lot's of potential, and I'm considering either restoring it myself, or having it done.

I'm all set for the metal restoration/alteration (except for razor hones which I'll be buying soon anyway), and I have everything I could possible need to carve/shape/polish a set of scales except I don't have the shop equipment to get me from a block-o-wood down to something that I could carve the rest of the way.

I know you can get off the shelf scales for many razors, and I may just go that route, but it would be fun to do a bit of hand carving, and a set of replacement scales wouldn't have enough material there to do any real carving on.