Thread: Anyone interested in Scale blank kits w. pins/washers & wedge?

Vlad,

I'm just getting into restoration and although I probably have the tools needed to work with the blanks and setting pins, etc., I have no idea how to go about it. Any chance your kits come with a set of directions?

Cheers

Originally Posted by bg42

I would be very interested in the pins and washers ,the wood I have plenty of
Kind regards Peter

Classic has some, but they also appear in bulk from time to time on eBay.

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Originally Posted by USNA92

Vlad,

I'm just getting into restoration and although I probably have the tools needed to work with the blanks and setting pins, etc., I have no idea how to go about it. Any chance your kits come with a set of directions?

Cheers

Rick,

The best source of info for restoration is Bill's CD and his blog on making scales. Bill's updated CD will have scale making information on it.

Bill posted the link to his blog in this thread.

Just wanted to update everyone that ordered kits or blanks or washers/wedges.

The wedges are 1.25" deep and approx. 1.5" wide. The bevel angle is 4 degrees. This may be too much for your particular blade/scales. You may need to file it down to reduce the angle. Use double sided tape and stick the wedge on a piece of wood. Secure the wood with a clamp to the table or in a vise and file it down to a lesser angle.

The wedge is deep so that you can use either the narrow end, the wide end or in between. You may even get two wedges out of it. One thin the other thick.

All packages are on their way, most left yesterday and some today. I nixed the buble envelope because it made the package too thick and bumped up the price over my estimate. But the nice lady at the post office recommended that I repack them in an envelope so it goes by air mail letter post. Which requires no customs declaration and costs half or parcel post. For once my shipping cost was actually under what I estimated.

I would expect these to arrive faster than parcel post because of no customs requirement. Let me know when you receive them.

I'm soo damn excited!!! I dug up the Dremel yesterday in an attempt to practise removing pitting from a blade with it. It worked....now just to figure out how so make the blade shiny again in a few spots....I'll get it ready for a nice set of scales in the near future.
I can't wait for that nice Cocobolo wood to arrive.

Alexander,

To make it shiny you need to polish it. You have to sand with increasing grits until 2000 or 2500 grit then use a polishing compound: MAAS, Simichrome, Flitz or any other metal polish.

Read some posts on blade restoration for pointers on when to switch grits. If you don't sand out previous grit's scratch lines then you will see them when you get to a higher grit or polishing stage. These will appear as scratches. If you patiently sand out all the prev. grit scratches then you will a shiny finish.

ok guys forgive the poor photography, this is the kit i got today from Vlad, ( i hope this works,,,)

I choose two , here they are, and i cant wait to get started, they arrived in 6 days and all the bits are all ready, Vlad, thank you again.

I got my kit as well. I'm pumped. I don't know when I'll have time to work on it but I'll enjoy it.

Vlad, are both the woodk kinds that you sent me cocobolo? because they look very different.

One is cocobolo, it is the brown and orangish brown. The other I added for you to practice on. Can't remember which but most likely it is Kingwood. If it is a bit narrower than the other set then it is Kingwood large grain pattern.

One has a very visible grain with lighter strains through it and is a bit narrower. The other is really dark. So i suppose that one is the Kingwood? Or is the narrow one with light grain the kingwood? I'm going to have a hard time deciding which to use on what now? Especially since only one full set is there with pins and everything.