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I've decided to start working with some bone handles on some of my knives and ordered a few sets of jigged scales. I also ordered one set of smooth radius cut bone scales so I could try my hand at dyeing and jigging them myself. The set cost about $10.00, which isn't a lot but they are totally different thicknesses and one has a long crack running almost the entire length of the scale. When you factor in the shipping and waiting it almost isn't worth it to return them, so what's the best way to stabilize a crack in bone?
I'll get a couple pics up in a minute.....
I know that bone isn't always a perfectly symmetrical medium to work with, but these two pieces are off by quite a bit. It could have been a nicely matched set, but whoever was running the saw that day had a bad case of blurry vision when lining things up
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Here are a couple pics of the crack and one to show the difference in size......
I'll get a couple pics up in a minute.....
I know that bone isn't always a perfectly symmetrical medium to work with, but these two pieces are off by quite a bit. It could have been a nicely matched set, but whoever was running the saw that day had a bad case of blurry vision when lining things up

Here are a couple pics of the crack and one to show the difference in size......



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