Over the weekend I got to go home to wear my tools live and finish up the work on razor. I had made very pretty honduran rosewood scales. Then, one disaster after another.

I made a real nice wedge out of bone (recycled from some Swiss Army scales I had made incorrectly), but it cracked right in half when I went to drill the hole.

I tried to make some out of some Ash I had lying around, but my bandsaw had gone all wonky and cuts in extreme curves.

Finnally, I picked up a scrap of the wood I had used to make the scales, glued it to the inside of one of the scales and sanded it to fit. It was too thick for the wedge and got a bit lopsided during the sanding part. I got it to where I thought it might work.

Then at last, came the final assembly! Tap tap tap. Tap tap ker-tap crack! The wood split. I attempted to round off the edge, but I just didn't have enough material left for it to work. They are now very pretty kindling or perhaps they can be reincarnated into more wedge attempts for the next pair.



What I learned:

1) I can make scales that I am proud of.
2) Making a wedge is alot harder than I thought.
3) I need to peen slower. I think I over did it, which caused the crack.

The New Plan:

1) Make a new set of scales. I have more rosewood.
2) Find something to make wedges out of.
2.1) And as an addendum to the last point, find a way to make the stupid bandsaw cut in a straight line.
3) Find a smaller ball peen hammer. I think mine is a 6oz.