I purchased a piece of S--t razor to practice on as far as 'Cleaning up' the blade, making scales and learning how to pin the scales.

With the help of my old friend 'Ski' I had a beautiful pair of Black Walnut 3/16" blanks that were cut out on his table saw. Ski didn't feel comfortable trying to plane them down to 1/8", and recommended that I sand to 1/8". (Which I did)

When he brought the blanks over, at first, I thought that he had mis-understood my request, as the Blanks looked more like 5/16""!

He had simply used common double sided Scotch Tape to bind the 3/16" blanks together!! I couldn't see a gap between the two pieces!!

When I started to form the blanks into the shape I wanted for my scales, the two pieces never, ever moved!

When I was done with all of my shaping and sanding, I went to separate the two scales.

I was actually afraid that I would break/split one of the scales! There were joined that well!!

He tells me that he often uses the two sided tape on much larger projects! For example, I was at his home/shop/garage and he was working on a very nice coffee table. It had an oval top and four legs that had a lot of detail cut out on his band saw.

He tells me that he used the tape trick to bind all four (4) of the 3/4" thick blanks together so he could cut them out on his band saw so that they would all be Exactly The Same!!

This 'Trick' may have been posted before, but I couldn't find it!

I hope it will help !