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Girls call me Makaluod
I have a Cadman ¾ "Bengall" in my stable with a broken scale tip at the pivot pin end. It shaves beautifully like my other 9 (soon to be 10) "Bengall" SRs.
I also have some 3.6mm thick quarter-sawn vintage Burmese teak for making a new set of SR scales.
I would really like to do something with this SR to correct the broken scale. The options I am considering are:
- Shorten the existing scales to remove the current pivot pin hole, reprofile the pivot pin end and refit the scales. This will mean the blade length will need to be also shortened by about 12mm, in which case I will give the blade an American (square) point to keep the edge length (currently 67mm) as long as possible. This will reduce the edge length down to about 57mm.
- Make a new set of scales from vintage Burmese teak to replace the existing scales.