Thread: Scale Inlays

Before folks like USA knife maker started making water jet cut patterns for escutcheons/inlays, what a lot of folks would do would carve the inlay shape into the piece of material and then use a metal with a VERY low melting point to cast a pattern which they then used to cut everything.

ok, so what about re-installing an inlay that was removed with acetone...... and let's say the scales are acrylic..... how would one go about refitting the inlay into acrylic? other than CA glue ontop.... ie I would like to get it flush.

same principles apply
you need to cut the indent for the shape & depth of the inlay from the scale, then set it in with an acrylic compatible glue
fill with extra glue then sand flush to suit the scales