Thread: Scale designs & sizes?

very nice. flatten out the top of the scales to make them closer to parallel to the top edge of the blade.

Yep, that's the method. The good thing is that you can see where the blade lies in the scales. I'd say the heel of the razor is too close to the edge of the scales. You can cut yourself if not careful when washing or wiping the razor...

Nenad

Words of wisdom for sure.

Last night finished off a lovely set of scales, brass lined, made a brass wedge as well and bugger, they don't fit.

My fault of course, I used a template for a roundpoint 8/8 and this blade has an inverse squarepoint. The arc the blade makes at the leading edge is great than that of the roundpoint.

So I have a nice set of scales but have to make another set for this battleship sized monster.

No worries though. I have been playing with Corel Draw and will experiment scanning a pic of the blade in and then design the scales over and around it. If I can't get that to work I'll go back to Billy's blog and lay the blade down and work from that.

So it pays to get everything correct before putting hours of work into a set.

yeesh, 8/8, juicy! I think it will be some time before I need to design scales for something like that. So far, for me, it's been almost entirely 5/8 & 6/8 full hollows.

A word to the wise though. When you're designing the scales digitally, use bezier curves! these things make adjustments a total breeze. If anyone wants, I can post the photoshop doc of the one I have.

ToxIK, Just exactly what I'm doing, those bezier thingy's are easy as to use.

Gary

Bezier curves using the pen tool in Photoshop is pretty much how I design and draw all of my art, especially the tattoos I've done. Very powerful tool, especially if you use layered paths.

All may not be lost Gary, My other 8/8 is a round point....

Originally Posted by garythepenman

Words of wisdom for sure.

Last night finished off a lovely set of scales, brass lined, made a brass wedge as well and bugger, they don't fit.

My fault of course, I used a template for a roundpoint 8/8 and this blade has an inverse squarepoint. The arc the blade makes at the leading edge is great than that of the roundpoint.

So I have a nice set of scales but have to make another set for this battleship sized monster.

No worries though. I have been playing with Corel Draw and will experiment scanning a pic of the blade in and then design the scales over and around it. If I can't get that to work I'll go back to Billy's blog and lay the blade down and work from that.

So it pays to get everything correct before putting hours of work into a set.

Try to leave a distance of at least 1/8" between the edge of the razor and the bottom of the scale's. Safer that way.

Awesome thread guys! Excellent details.

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