Thread: Scale Experimentation.....Goes Wrong

Thought I would post this since it made me mad. So I had some thin pauduk and yellowheart that I decided to put together and see how it would turn out. After I had the wood together I figured it would look alot better with the edges beveled to where you could just see the yellowheart around the pauduk and it did. I had one scale done and thought I could actually use them instead of just experimenting. I started on the other one and for some reason thought they were still to thick so I went back to the first scale. I always tape my scales onto a bigger piece of wood to make holding them alot easier, but for some reason this time I decided I would just do it quick and try to hold the 3mm thick scale with my finger tips and sand it thinner. Anyway the scale slipped out of my hand and somehow slipped under the guard and wrapped around the belt. Needless to say the scale was in a few pieces after that. I guess if I didn't decide that I could actually use the scales they would have turned out. Never got around to finishing the other one, but it gives me some ideas. Here is how far it turned out. The bottom of the scale is the look I was going for. Just enough yellowheart to poke out to show along the side of the pauduk. Next time I will have to make sure to tape them to something bigger that I can hold on to.