Quote Originally Posted by sharptonn View Post
Keep on looking......Still may be horn!
Seems a lot of built-up lather and crud inside the scales. Need to unpin completely, I think!
Actually they are pretty clean. Not hardly any lather build up at all. I can see the wood grain on the inside of one scale and paint or stain residue as I am not sure the inside was painted. The other scale without the paint wear and with some minor worm (?) holes or chips could in fact be black horn. I will redo that side with the hot pin test tomorrow. Taking the scales apart would certainly answer much of this but don't know if I am ready for that yet. Going to take this restore real slow.