First Set of Homemade Scales, out of plumbing pipe?

Well done!

That's awesome! What did you use for wedge material?

That's amazing...

Very impressive!

Suticat said:

You can take a blow torch and scortch them to add a different dimensionality to them. These guys did as perches for parrots and reptiles.

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Nice idea,

Nice work!

Great job!

Awesome idea! Now no one can complain about having a hard time finding decent material for a set of scales!

AND the cream color is perfect!

Way to be resourceful, killer scales! I love to see interesting custom scales, adds a taste of personality

aj

Another use for PCV pipe.

Awesome job with those scales!

Nice work.

very impressive!

What did you do for the wedge?

Wow! Just...wow! I was struggling yesterday evening trying to find material to make some scales. Ended up with wood and then failed miserably. I'm now officially inspired by your work and I'm off to the hardware store the first chance I get. I'm sure I'll fail miserably once again but I'll perservere. Great job.

Dangsta4501 said:

Wow! Just...wow! I was struggling yesterday evening trying to find material to make some scales. Ended up with wood and then failed miserably. I'm now officially inspired by your work and I'm off to the hardware store the first chance I get. I'm sure I'll fail miserably once again but I'll perservere. Great job.

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Not to mention failing miserably only means being out a couple of bucks...

Heespharm said:

Not to mention failing miserably only means being out a couple of bucks...

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You're not wrong there. $11 New Zealand dollars (about $9usd) for a one metre (thats about a mile and a half in American) long piece of pipe. Bargain.

Dangsta4501 said:

You're not wrong there. $11 New Zealand dollars (about $9usd) for a one metre (thats about a mile and a half in American) long piece of pipe. Bargain.

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WOW! Those are some meters!

You should post pics in the metric system thread.

Very impressed. Very.

Your impressive results got me digging around in my scrap pile. I had some 1 1/2" blue polyethylene pipe laying around after running a water line to the horse barn. I cut a couple of pieces to shape and sanded the inside diameter down to near flat. Unfortunately, they are too flexible to use. Starting with a larger diameter pipe with its greater wall thickness may help, but I thought I would save someone else the trouble of trying it for themselves.