Yesterday and today I've been busy with my test-scales, from the Maple wood.
To be honest, the wood isn't as bad as I thought! Got one scale cut and sanded, gonna start on the other one in a bit This one still needs some fine work though.

Some pix:
Drawing with pieces of Maple


Rough cut


Sanded both scales to the same size, Piet suggested me to glue them together, which worked real nice.


Cut the lines into the scale. Don't know if it's clear on the picture, but the lines are somewhat like this: >---<, like in the drawing.


Sideview


Overall I'm pretty happy with the first scale. Its far from perfect, but it looks nice with the blade behind it.
Does anyone have an idea how to accentuate these edges?

So far my break, let's continue with the second scale