Favorite Scales

[hig789]

I like the traditional big Wade and Butcher shape. I like the more modern touch on them though. Ideally I like using the original horn scales though, but most of the time they are too far gone to save.

 

[pmaster]

I've found my tastes in scales to evolve a lot in time. I used to like TI-style scales a lot. I still do. Then those nice CVH scales, simple elegance. For a long time I wanted some paua/MOP shell scales, when done right these can be stunning. Then those nice classic scales for big W&B choppers...

I just love them all

The perfect scales depend a lot on the blade. The ones I made which I like the most so far are these:


For materials, ebay is usually my source.

 

[Fordfather]

Very nice, pmaster! IMO, that shape always deserves the double wedge pin!

 

[Doc226]

Classic WB black horn scales or Ivory

 

[Fordfather]

Classic WB black horn scales

I bet you just repinned a set!

 

[hig789]

Classic WB black horn scales or Ivory

Man I'd love to see a set of fbu scales made of ivory.


Alright, have to change my vote for my all time favorites. Red backed abalone acrylic laminate. Plus this razor was just amazing.

 

[Fordfather]

Man I'd love to see a set of fbu scales made of ivory.

With a 24k wedge!

Great scales, hig!

 

[mycarver]

I like these too because they aren't the same old same old,,,,
same shape different color type of thing.

sorry about the 3rd and 4th shots. It's a phone thing t-ferring pics. Just tilt your head a little .

 

[Fordfather]

I like these too because they aren't the same old same old,,,,
same shape different color type I thing.

sorry about the 3rd and 4th shots. It's a phone thing t-ferring pics. Just tilt your head a little .

(Damn!) I'd kill to watch you work!

 

[Fordfather]

mycarver, how about an artistic female nude. Head at the wedge, arms crossed over the "emma's", hands covering the midsection, etc. Would look nice in ivory.

 

[mycarver]

Thanks.
Wow. I figured out how to straighten them out!
Cherry blossoms on a Japanese razor. Cherry Red( naturally) wedge.

 

[mycarver]

mycarver, how about an artistic female nude. Head at the wedge, arms crossed over the "emma's", hands covering the midsection, etc. Would look nice in ivory.

Nothing is out of the realm of possibilities. I'm currently working on some Ivory designs to carve as well as scrimshaw. One will be coming up soon with a barber shop theme for a client that is a barber. It'll wrap around a Beeeeyoutiful FBU that should be too cool. Carved Ivory, sterling silver bolsters and color scrimshaw
the other is for a French blade stamped Monmarte in Paris and will have an Art Nouveau style or possibly Alphonse Mucha as it's appropriate for the theme.
carved Ivory naturally.

 

[mycarver]

One more while I'm at it. An actual sterling silver frame with a glass(?) cover with a tiny portrait in it. Restored this one for my collection. Different if nothing else.

 

[Fordfather]

Just screwing around in the shop and built a #0 fender washer from some 18 ga. steel. I know its steel. But it's thick and wanted to prove my process. This one is .250"o.d., could go up to 9/32".

Sorry for pic quality, its a cell phone

 

[mycarver]

Hey, stop it! Sounds like you're having too much fun.

Cool! Ain't it great just seeing what you can do? You are totally engrossed in making a tiny little washer that before now didn't exist. And you in all probability got lost in the process. 5 min. , 15, half hour or an hour. Who cares? A man after my own heart.
Now go make something else.

 

[Fordfather]

I'm contemplating a homemade belt grinder

 

[mycarver]

Sure, why not? That's the direction I was headed at first.

 

[mycarver]

these too. An Engles with custom acrylic. A Red Injun with a red feather scale. Another whale of a razor. And a Wilshaw with custom acrylic with cracked ice inlays.

 

[Fordfather]

Great scales, Mark! I'm always surprised by the scale shapes that you come up with. So simple, but befitting of the blade!

 

[oakeshott]

Here's an old razor of mine now sold on, but I must say I always thought this was the best piece of burl that I've seen on any razor.

Those scales remind me of Van Gogh's "Starry Night".