Thread: The BIG!!!! Re-scale Secret

Originally Posted by claytor

Thanks for the tip. I never considered to check this out. Personally I prefer holding the tang when I strop mainly with two fingers and the scales pressed against the edge of my pinky-side palm. Do you gents hold at the scales?

NO I hold at the tang too, I think most everyone does...
You have to feel a bad set to understand what I mean here...
The flow just falls apart...

Here is a for instance on a factory razor, a TI made for AOS with the SS scales, by far the worst set of scales ever put on a Factory razor (at least that I have touched)...

http://www.theartofshaving.com/taos6...68022&group=10

Your dead right with this thread Glen. My second set of scales looked cool but were an absolute PITA to strop and to shave with. These things need to be considered before tools are even picked up
Grant

This is one of the reasons that I always cut out a sample set of the scale design in paper, and see where the scales are popping out when in the fully open (stropping) position.

I have one set of scales I've made that I need to alter because they come to a point, and the point sticks out and interferes with your thumb during the rolling motions of stropping.