New Set of Scales

I was piddling in the garage earlier today with my new batch of razors and ran across some scrap handle material. In between working on the razors, I came up with these. They are metal lined.

The white is linen micarta. The bands are fiber spacing material for knives... and the red is dyed and stabilized curly maple. The kind where you rotate it and watch the bands move all around.

They might work...

http://home.comcast.net/~cherylellis...edscales01.jpg

Way cool!

RT

Like it a lot...

Fascinating!

Piddling, you call that piddiling? I'd hate to see what would happen if you were trying.

They really do look nice Bill.

Tim

nice work!!!

Nice stuff, Bill!

I just got through finishing a set of scales for a beautiful sheffield wedge and went with Ebony and abalone. The elegance for this is in the simplicity and I think it should accent the mirror-finish on the big silver-steel wedge very well.

Robert,

Very nice! As always, I'm impressed!

RT

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Originally Posted by urleebird

I was piddling in the garage earlier today with my new batch of razors and ran across some scrap handle material...

They might work...

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I think they will. :D Nicely done!

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Originally Posted by PapaBull

Nice stuff, Bill!

I just got through finishing a set of scales for a beautiful sheffield wedge and went with Ebony and abalone. The elegance for this is in the simplicity and I think it should accent the mirror-finish on the big silver-steel wedge very well.

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Those are gorgeous scales Robert!

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Originally Posted by PapaBull

Ebony and abalone.

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That's beautiful too. Matches my fretboard.

X

Nice work guys!:)

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...and went with Ebony and abalone.

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Robert... Those are very classy. Inlay, or lined scales?

That's an inlay, Bill. I'm thinking about doing more inline laminations because they look about as good and have a lot less "pucker factor" while finishing the inlay work but right now, I'm still enjoying the challenge, LOL.

Here's the finished razor:

It looks like you've got some brown light spilling all over that shiny W&B wedge from somewhere. You might want to have that looked after before yo decide to shave with it. Nice to see a set of scales that fit those old notched blades. That's a rarity. And so pretty too. *round of applause*

X

Thanks, Xman, the brown light is the reflection of the autum leaves in the backyard tree. Here's another shot of it from a different angle. This razor is actually a Frederick Rogers, which I consider to be another of the great English Razors. It's hard to find a pristine F.R. wedge and this one wasn't pristine when I got it but was worth the time and effort spent on it.

I really like the big English blades, in case it's not obvious, LOL. :)

Robert,

Very nice. And I thought DE shaving was addictive and expensive!

Randy