View Poll Results: Do You Want to Learn How to Make Scales?
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12-10-2005, 06:39 PM #1< Banned User >
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Making Scales for Your Straight Razor
I started to put some info on making scales in the blog section. It can wind up taking me a lot of time to complete, so I don't want to babble on if there is no interest.
Give me your imput. I'll need more than 3 or 4 of you to be interested in it for me to continue. Let me know on this thread. One or two can leave a comment on the blog also, just so I can get a handle on how blogs work. Something else I have to learn
This making scales info will be on the update to my CD, along with some other stuff, of course. For now, I am only posting this mini class on SRP.com, and maybe my own blog somewhere out there in blog land, where ever that is.
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12-10-2005, 06:41 PM #2Senior Member
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I'd be more than happy to learn about making new scales. As it stands, I have a couple of eBay specials I'm working on that would probably clean up really nice with a new set of scales.
I vote continue if you have the time!
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12-10-2005, 07:20 PM #3Face nicker
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I have a 7/8 wedge I got on ebay that is in need of scales. So let the babeling begin.
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12-10-2005, 07:22 PM #4Senior Member
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Blab away Bill. This is something i have been thinking about and would love to learn.
Originally Posted by urleebird
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12-10-2005, 07:54 PM #5Previously lost, now "Pasturized"
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Please do carry on, I'm very interested in this particular topic. It may be only me, but I find that the majority of razors that I have seen, have lackluster scales and are screaming for a rescale.
Regards
Christian
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12-10-2005, 08:48 PM #6Super Shaver
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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12-11-2005, 12:53 AM #7Shave ready
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Bill,
Please continue. I'd really like to learn how to make scales. I have all sorts of pieces of exotic woods and other material just waiting. I even have a couple of pieces of Mamoth ivory I bought on Ebay. they're not big enough for whole scales. thought I'd fill in the edges with something else exotic, like maybe black onyx (can stone be used for scales? if I sculpt it to the proper shape). I'd be a happy camper if you'd continue.
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12-11-2005, 12:58 AM #8Shave ready
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OOps! I should have read Bills entire blog before replying. Duhhh! Fossils are stone. Duhhhh!
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12-11-2005, 03:08 AM #9< Banned User >
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Originally Posted by wopmanfixit
Actually, fossils are not stone ~ yet. They are on there way there. Petrified is what you are thinking of. That's where all the organic material has been replaced by the aging process and turned it into stone. You need a whole new batch of tools to work with stone, and I won't be going into that.
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12-11-2005, 03:50 AM #10Junior Member
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i too will be looking forward to urleebird's tutorial. Making your own scale looks like a good little project to do. (i've been fancying that the tight-grained jackfruit wood that i have will look good as scales.)
i just can't figure for now how i can replace the pins- buy replacements? or if the old pins might be reused
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