Filling in a large void in handle wood

[milkbaby]

I got some cool burly scales that have both a tapered section and a large void on the backside that I would like to fill in order to use on a knife handle. I looked at alumilite casting but it seems to require a pressure pot and is too much cost and effort just for this one set of scales.

I've seen tutorials online for people making homemade micarta/mycarta with epoxy and material just simply squeezed between two pieces of wax paper lined plywood in c-clamps. I was thinking of just making a little box lined with wax paper and then pouring some epoxy in there on the wood. I have a few epoxy dyes that I could use instead of leaving it clear, though clear might look interesting? I would sand and use a wire brush to clean up any wax from the wood first so hopefully the epoxy would adhere okay.

The backside with the epoxy fill would then get glued to a liner and used on a personal knife, just something for myself so not a big deal other than losing time and effort and a nice piece of wood if an abject failure. The biggest downside might be bubbles in the epoxy, but I could use a hair dryer to pop the bubbles with heat like when making mosaic pins.

Is there a fatal flaw to my idea that I'm not seeing?

Pics of the scales in question (cocobolo):

 

[bike4fun919 OpbunchKnives]

I’ve used super glue and saw dust over multiple layer build up to fill voids. Hard to tell from the photo how large the void.

 

[butcher_block]

maybe send it off to have the casting thing done? i know its not fast but there are guys out there doin it (i have a few blocks i think im going to get done )

 

[JTknives]

Are you talking about that huge divot in the scales? I have seen guys fill small voids and knot holes and it looks cool. I think that what you have is beyond that . I would not consider that a void, it’s missing a large section. I say cut it up and make a stacked handle out of it. That’s just such a large surface area with no wood sides to hold the epoxy in place. I feal like it would have a tendency to want to pop off as the wood moves from humidy and temp change.