I just bought a vintage straight razor this weekend, and was wanting to do a restore on it.
I'll post a few pics tomorrow, but after reading a bit on the wiki, I was wondering if metal scales are common.
I was wanting to make some nickle scales for this razor, but I haven't seen any examples of razors with metal scales.
The second question is, will I need a small gap when pinning the piviot, or do I just need to be careful when setting the pin so as to not firmly rivit the scales to the tang??

thanks for the help

John