Ok Fellas, I'm turning to you for some advice. I've always thought about making a solid block of Micarta to turn a brush handle out of, and last night I made an attempt. I cut so much freaking Linen, I wasn't about to count how many layers I had. I had 3" of material, and that's 3" with me pushing it down with my hand. I made a form, as you will see from the pics, soaked all the pieces and clamped it as hard as I could. I gave it the night to cure and took it out this morning to see that I only had 1 1/4" of material to work with. I couldn't believe I compressed all that down to 1 1/4".

My question to you guys is, do you think it's possible to add more material and epoxy to this existing blank, to get to the size I need. I was originally shooting for 2". After seeing it was not big enough, my initial thought was, oh well I'll just adhere a cool piece of wood or acrylic to the side of it to make up for the material I need.

Whatcha think guys?


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