Thread: Boker WIP

Picked this off Ebay for $45. The plan is clean the blade, rescale in Plum wood with brass/SS wedge.
Ebay item number: 280454775951 Broken scale with lead wedge.

Outline of scale shape.


Material thickness I ripped myself


Visual aid


Wedge material


Pieces cut


Bonded with Gorilla glue


So now I am off to my friends house because he has a band saw. More to come......

Like that wedge design! I'm glad a few people have more skill and patience at this than I do.

I was looking at that one on The Bay. Very nice. Please post pics when you finish. Good luck.

Bikes! Aw man I'm bummed I missed that one. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

So I did some more work today, got the form cut out after pining them together.




Then took a 4 way and put some shape to it.




Test fit the blade and they are WAY too thick. Traced the outline onto a thinner piece of Plum, cut it to shape then split it in half with a coping saw.


More later.

looks great! The scale design is awsome! Cant wait to see it finished.

Sorry about this I moved a bunch of pictures around over in Photobucket. To review.
Layout




The wedge idea is to layer Brass and SS sheets.

The Plum tree wood split in half.


Rough cut to shape


Put some curves on it with 4 way rasp.



These are too thick so I tried again with a new piece of wood.

This didn't work either so I went back to the thick ones and thinned them down with a rasp. Still on the very big side for scales but I am working on it.

if they turn out too thick, sand, sand, and sand some more...