I recently bought a grab bag on various wooden pen blanks, roughly 3/4" x 3/4" x 6" to use as the base material for my scales. My first set actually turned out pretty good considering I was doing it all by hand and with no real idea what I was doing. However, their size doesn't leave me with much room for error or design choices. I should have just bought some thin stock that was already the right thickness. Anyway, my question is "Can I glue/epoxy the various blanks together side to side until I have enough to work with?" This would mean the different wood grains would be going across the width of the scales instead of lengthwise after I made my cuts to form the blanks. I realize this would probably look a bit on the ugly side with the different woods used, but would it hold up during the shaping and pinning process? Or is this a stupid question and I'm not making any sense?