Thread: Restoring scales

Anyone on here have any links or advice for restoring/repairing various types of scales (wood, bone, bakelite, celluloid, horn, etc) with typical problems such as cracks, chips, breaks, crud, etc? I would rather fix the original scales rather than make new ones on the older razors. I have one very old wooden-scaled one that has a split in the wood straight up through the pivot pin.

I know I'm posting a lot today, but all of these problems seem to be hitting at once.

Thanks again!

Glue, and it doesn't really work on most of the materials

This is why you don't see how to do it, you can try a ton of different epoxies, CA's and fiberglass and honestly they don't really work all that well, they either are very visable, or don't hold up... I have seen some pretty nice work done with some of the old bug bitten horn scales and colored epoxy on here and I want to say Oz did it IIRC but other than that, I haven't seen/used anything that really works all that well..

There you go, you heard it from one of the best...

I've tried a few things and ended up making new scales, just like Glen said I would...