Thread: Scales with Shield?

An old Lund, Cornhill, razor that I gave to a friend:



Scales are ivory. Thermoplastic materials like horn and tortoiseshell could have the metalwork heated and pressed into the scales. Another method was to solder pins on the metalwork and make indentations on the other side of the scale to accomodate solder, but the class work was done with a specialised tool called a two-legged parser. It could cut recesses exactly, and to almost any shape you liked:

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Of course, the shields had to be made first along with a metal aperture acting as a guide for the parser:



Regards,
Neil