Thanks Glen all great questions I didn't even think about.

Russell already suggested to me that I should try to thin the scales down a bit, and it's coming along albeit slowly.
But as they are they do flex visibly when opening and closing the razor.

Call it dumb luck but the razor does but it does balance near the the pivot. it's a little heavy on the blade side but only by 3/8th of an inch or so. Maybe I will do an epoxy finish after all to get it to balance right at the pivot.

Feels fine when stropping so the moby dick design seems to be ok.