diff --git a/src/scales/scale.linear.js b/src/scales/scale.linear.js
index 338fc3d35..9c6f1aeba 100644
--- a/src/scales/scale.linear.js
+++ b/src/scales/scale.linear.js
@@ -221,13 +221,16 @@ module.exports = function(Chart) {
 				this.start = this.min;
 				this.end = this.max;
 			}
-
-			this.ticksAsNumbers = this.ticks.slice(); // do after we potentially reverse the ticks
-			this.zeroLineIndex = this.ticks.indexOf(0);
 		},
 		getLabelForIndex: function(index, datasetIndex) {
 			return +this.getRightValue(this.chart.data.datasets[datasetIndex].data[index]);
 		},
+		convertTicksToLabels: function() {
+			this.ticksAsNumbers = this.ticks.slice();
+			this.zeroLineIndex = this.ticks.indexOf(0);
+
+			Chart.Scale.prototype.convertTicksToLabels.call(this);
+		},
 		// Utils
 		getPixelForValue: function(value, index, datasetIndex, includeOffset) {
 			// This must be called after fit has been run so that
diff --git a/src/scales/scale.logarithmic.js b/src/scales/scale.logarithmic.js
index 8f138193b..070a08d61 100644
--- a/src/scales/scale.logarithmic.js
+++ b/src/scales/scale.logarithmic.js
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ module.exports = function(Chart) {
 		buildTicks: function() {
 			// Reset the ticks array. Later on, we will draw a grid line at these positions
 			// The array simply contains the numerical value of the spots where ticks will be
-			this.tickValues = [];
+			this.ticks = [];
 
 			// Figure out what the max number of ticks we can support it is based on the size of
 			// the axis area. For now, we say that the minimum tick spacing in pixels must be 50
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ module.exports = function(Chart) {
 			var tickVal = this.options.ticks.min !== undefined ? this.options.ticks.min : Math.pow(10, Math.floor(helpers.log10(this.min)));
 
 			while (tickVal < this.max) {
-				this.tickValues.push(tickVal);
+				this.ticks.push(tickVal);
 
 				var exp = Math.floor(helpers.log10(tickVal));
 				var significand = Math.floor(tickVal / Math.pow(10, exp)) + 1;
@@ -127,20 +127,20 @@ module.exports = function(Chart) {
 			}
 
 			var lastTick = this.options.ticks.max !== undefined ? this.options.ticks.max : tickVal;
-			this.tickValues.push(lastTick);
+			this.ticks.push(lastTick);
 
 			if (this.options.position === "left" || this.options.position === "right") {
 				// We are in a vertical orientation. The top value is the highest. So reverse the array
-				this.tickValues.reverse();
+				this.ticks.reverse();
 			}
 
 			// At this point, we need to update our max and min given the tick values since we have expanded the
 			// range of the scale
-			this.max = helpers.max(this.tickValues);
-			this.min = helpers.min(this.tickValues);
+			this.max = helpers.max(this.ticks);
+			this.min = helpers.min(this.ticks);
 
 			if (this.options.ticks.reverse) {
-				this.tickValues.reverse();
+				this.ticks.reverse();
 
 				this.start = this.max;
 				this.end = this.min;
@@ -148,8 +148,11 @@ module.exports = function(Chart) {
 				this.start = this.min;
 				this.end = this.max;
 			}
+		},
+		convertTicksToLabels: function() {
+			this.tickValues = this.ticks.slice();
 
-			this.ticks = this.tickValues.slice();
+			Chart.Scale.prototype.convertTicksToLabels.call(this);
 		},
 		// Get the correct tooltip label
 		getLabelForIndex: function(index, datasetIndex) {
diff --git a/test/scale.linear.tests.js b/test/scale.linear.tests.js
index be6c803d2..85d076bf6 100644
--- a/test/scale.linear.tests.js
+++ b/test/scale.linear.tests.js
@@ -650,7 +650,6 @@ describe('Linear Scale', function() {
 
 		// Reverse mode makes this count up
 		expect(scale.ticks).toEqual([0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80]);
-		expect(scale.ticksAsNumbers).toEqual([0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80]);
 		expect(scale.start).toBe(80);
 		expect(scale.end).toBe(0);
 	});