Thread: Best place to get acrylic scale material?

Where are some good sites for scale materials?

I have a WoodCraft store in town but there acrylic stuff is 5in at most (for making pens).

Thanks!

The workshop sticky has tons of info, and at the bottom has places to get the materials. Monster 1 x 6 Inch Acrylic Blanks
Here is the place to buy Monster pen blanks 1 by 6 i think, but u need something to be able to rip the stock to 1/8th hope this helps
ML

Here's an astonishingly similar thread from a week ago, with the same question: http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...-material.html
Here's the workshop thread that has the answer: http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...wers-here.html

If you don't have a complete shop stick to 1/8 inch thick sheets... Like Watermark pointed out already...

Call your local Glass shop and Sign shop they should have some stock and scrap

Look at acrylic Clipboards they can be cut and used

Originally Posted by gssixgun

If you don't have a complete shop stick to 1/8 inch thick sheets... Like Watermark pointed out already...

Call your local Glass shop and Sign shop they should have some stock and scrap

Look at acrylic Clipboards they can be cut and used

Great ideas!
Sry I missed the sticky. I'll check it out.

Not strictly an acrylic but a paper or linen reinforced thermosetting plastic, is the micarta from Jantz Supply for all your Knife Making needs . There is a bitterly frustrating variety of plastics, woods etc. up to 5in. long, but the micarta goes larger in 1/8in. sheet. One type is a pretty good substitute for ivory.

Now I am stretching my memory back nearly fifty years, but I think I found it was possible to dye the British perspex (pretty much like plexiglas) with the powdered hot dyes used for fabrics. You might care to try it on some small test pieces. But I think you could get some interesting mottled effects by binding with with something to interrupt the dyeing.

I bought some fiberglass resin and am going to try my hand at making micarta!

It could be done, I'm sure. It you have a large vice you could line the jaws with taped wooden slats which won't stick to the resin, and squeeze as much as possible out of the laid-up pieces. That makes for strength, just as it does with ordinary fiberglass, and it would make the layers look most consistent and less noticeable when you cut and chamfer the edges.

Tum, try googling mycarta. It is the homemade version of Micarta and has been made by many people with varying degrees of success.

On another note, does anyone know where you can buy sheets of the swirled acrylic, or celluloid, or whatever it is being made out of today? Like tortoise shell, etc? I looked at the links in the sticky and did not see mention of it anywhere.