Pair of scales for vintage ERA ATOR ?

pugh-the-special-one

pugh-the-special-one

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I was wondering if anyone had a pair of vintage ERA ATOR scales they would care to sell me, I purchased this on off the Bay, but the scales had a hairline crack just by the pin on the tang, as soon as I tried to remove them it snapped in three places, the plastic was very very brittle, but the blade cleaned up lovely, if not i will use a vintage set off another German razor of the same period. I will show you a few shots of the blade. As you see it needs to go for the final polish I would expect it to come up looking really good.

Jamie

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pugh-the-special-one said:
Thanks Erik I have my eyes on a nice vintage pair of German scales in faux ivory, from the same period they would look nice.

Jamie
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You can try removing the detail from the old scales and transferring it across to the other scales you get
 
That would be a idea, but if you saw the scales, they looked really good, but the plastic had become so brittle they are almost un workable, thanks for the idea though.

Jamie.
 
pugh-the-special-one said:
That would be a idea, but if you saw the scales, they looked really good, but the plastic had become so brittle they are almost un workable, thanks for the idea though.

Jamie.
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Well if they are what I think they are a soak in acetone will dissolve them, meaning a pair of tweezers will allow you to pick the inlay out.
 
I finally gave the ERN a pair of scales I had made for a previous razor, the acrylic blocks were kindly given to me by Graham AKA the Exile, so I removed them from a little folly blade I had rescaled and moved them onto the ERN, it's not the biggest razor length wise so it fitted these small scales perfectly, well here's the pic's.

Jamie.


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