Thread: Wooden Scale Advice

is the wood you have already in scale thickness slabs, or just a block? Either way, make sure that the indide faces are FLAT. A piece of glass, granite counter top, marble tile, etc, with sandpaper taped to it works well if you don't have a disc grinder. Lightly glue those two surfaces together with a few drops of wood glue and a piece of printer paper between them. Draw your pattern on the wood, or glue a paper pattern to it. Profile and drill both sides together at once. Use a drill press, its more accurate than your eyes and a hand drill. After drilling and profiling, split them apart. Sand away the glue spots. Start shaping and make your wedge. Finish your scales befoe pinning together. That means all buffing, too. Pin the wedge first, then the pivot. Look up Glenn's (gssixgun) video on pinning scales if you need more advice, its almost 30minutes long, and worth it.


It doesn't take long once you have done a few, but the first one is always nerve wracking.

Good luck and take picture!


-Xander