Originally Posted by
ScoutHikerDad
Well, after taking them out of the clamps and being amazed that I couldn't even see the epoxy repair, as I was cleaning them off-yep, they broke at the same spot (as expected-I didn't even cuss).
Well, I immediately flattened the other pair on one side (but left them at near full thickness this time), cut my G10 to the size of the blanks, then rough-sanded and scored both the wood and the G10 liner on the gluing surfaces before smearing evenly with epoxy, making them into wax-paper sandwiches and clamping them hard between flat wood pieces in my vise-not even gonna look at them before tomorrow, but I feel pretty good about this technique. I've got everything else done (wedge, pins, blade, etc.); hopefully I can finish and pin her up tomorrow-more later.