Thread: Scales with Shield?

Hi Guys,

Just wondering if anyone has some scales with a shield on them? I've got a razor that I'd like restored and am thinking the shield would be a nice touch. There's one going on the bay atm but it would be a shame to separate them from their razor.

Cheers,

Here's one of mine with a shield - and other things.

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

Great post Neil, very interesting an early version of the router, the shoulder of the bit rides the template to form any shape, love it, just like a triangular bit used in a dow drill creates a square hole, hence square nails.

illustration below shows bit riding the template cutting the given material.

That's exactly it, Martin! Nice illustration.

Some people still use them for putting the bosses/shields in pen-knives, etc, but I guess that laser cutting is now the norm. Still, the old parser is much cheaper - not much more than a few flattened rods of steel, a bobbin and a hone-made bow!

Regards,
Neil

To see the parser in use go here PBS - Woodwright's Shop: Schedule play video number 2807.