Thanks for being the first to start the conversation! Scales are a tough one - especially if the scales do not measure up to the quality of the blade. Some razors, with cheap scales in good condition virtually look up at me and beg to be taken out of their shoddy clothes and given ones that fit them better. It seems that many of the folks making the decisions on scales decided that the blade was the important part and the scales just made the blade easier to hold. If a razor is not a rare historic artifact, I think I feel freer to be creative with replacement scales.

Museums, under the guise of "conservation" really do an awful lot of restoration of the works they display. People just wouldn't come to see a suit of armor that is all rusted or a display of swords all pitted and dull. OK, now I'm ready to get hate mail from museum conservators ;-)