We study the scalar curvature of K\"ahler metrics that have cone singularities along a divisor, with a particular focus on certain specific classes of such metrics that enjoy some curvature estimates. Our main result is that, on the projective completion of a pluricanonical bundle over a product of K\"ahler--Einstein Fano manifolds with the second Betti number 1, momentum-constructed constant scalar curvature K\"ahler metrics with cone singularities along the $\infty$-section exist if and only if the log Futaki invariant vanishes on the fibrewise $\mathbb{ C}^*$-action, giving a supporting evidence to the log version of the Yau--Tian--Donaldson conjecture for general polarisations. We also show that, for these classes of conically singular metrics, the scalar curvature can be defined on the whole manifold as a current, so that we can compute the log Futaki invariant with respect to them. Finally, we prove some partial invariance results for them.
Categories: math.DG math.AG