First attempt at making scales

[Brighty83]

Well.. i was looking at my shavett style razor and thought.... why do they have to look so boring? lol

So i figured, for the price that they are worth why not try to rescale it... And for some practice as i have two blades coming in the mail that don't have scales.

I used a Tasmanian oak but after pinning it with a 1/16 brass rod i realized that the wood was slightly too soft so i re-pinned it with a 1/8 hollow rod and it seemed to work. Because of the 1/8 pins it turned out a little different but still doesn't look too bad.

Next time i might need a harder wood or i will need to harden the wood some how (suggestions?)


Revision 1


So i guess i learned a few things during making it and i should have aligned the back pins better but at-least i will know for next time Still looks better then the plastic scales it came with.

Edit: Revision 2 (rounded the edges)


Edit: Revision 3 (Filled the pin holes) I think this is all i'm going to change now lol