07-25-2008, 10:14 PM
It did not curl up on the edges with the straight snips I used. I used "notching" shears for cutting the curved edge and it left tooling marks on that edge, but it was easily filed. The entire scale curved slightly when cutting a row of 8 scales out of the grid, but that curve spread over 8 scales was easily flattened for each individual scale. Bottom line is that it wasn't that difficult with 24 gauge phosphor bronze.
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Chris Boatcallie
Chris Boatcallie
