Thread: measurement of thickness for one piece scales (if anyone cares)

if anyone cares or wants to make 1 piece scales, or thought about it, but doesnt know the thickness of the material they should use, id say about light 7/16".

it worked out well for me today. ill post pictures tomorrow. i just took some oak, resawed it to 7/16", took about 1/32" off each side to make it nice. drew lines 1/8" on each side and just resawed down each line then one more time to get out any stock left over. yay.

Thanks for sharing
Tom

What saw did you make your internal cut with. Last set I did I used a scroll saw and it kinda sucked! Scales turned out nice (until I broke them)


Oh and so Necromantics, Tiger Army, Creep Show?

Awesome info.

Pics would be really cool.

Originally Posted by sbrouwers

What saw did you make your internal cut with. Last set I did I used a scroll saw and it kinda sucked! Scales turned out nice (until I broke them)


Oh and so Necromantics, Tiger Army, Creep Show?

never. tiger army is a joke. they arent even remotly rockabilly. i dont do the psychobilly stuff. i do the real deal **** from hank williams to gene vincent to 3 bad jacks.

if you wanna hear real psychobilly check out bloodshot bill. no punk influence, just crazy ass rockabilly.

and i used a bandsaw. it worked like a charm

Although I don't make one piece scales, I just measured a Livi that is here for work, and the sizes that Davey gave are a match with what Livi does on his one piece stuff....

If you could do the pics and get a little more detailed with how you did the cuts and stuff this would make great Wiki material....

I agree... a wiki would be nice.

I did a tutorial a while back. You may want to check these links out.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...-part-1-a.html

http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...-part-2-a.html

I would love to see pics using a band saw method. I can't seem to keep my lines staright enough with a band saw.

Jerry

Bandsaw advice: Make a simple taper jig. That chop saw rig scares me everytime I see it.

Originally Posted by OutlawSkinnyD

never. tiger army is a joke. they arent even remotly rockabilly. i dont do the psychobilly stuff. i do the real deal **** from hank williams to gene vincent to 3 bad jacks.

if you wanna hear real psychobilly check out bloodshot bill. no punk influence, just crazy ass rockabilly.

and i used a bandsaw. it worked like a charm

I dig old williams. Checked out bloodshot bill Hells ya!!! You ever listen to JR Brown? Dude just plays great!

I am going to run a set across the bandsaw this week and see how it goes!