Hey all! Just had another fail in experimenting in cutting a piece of horn in half... Orignally I purchased some blanks from Maggard Razors for $9 on the 6x2x1/8 or 150x50x3.5mm Is what I measured. Of course I could go back to doing that but I found someone on eBay selling horn for $9 a piece for 150x50x8-10mm so naturally I thought hey I can just cut the piece in half and get two pieces for the price of one! But thus far it has proven to be more of a pain than anything else...

Attempt 1) I cut but on that one I just drew a line and hoped for the best, of course that didn't work lmao but the horn was cut very easily... Which that piece is the cut piece in the middle

Attempt 2) I purchased a micrometer from harbor freight and used it to dig out a line right down the middle of the horn... I did recently change the stock blade so that might have been the problem or this horn is waaaay denser... But I tried to cut this piece nice and show, let the blade do the work and the cut was straight on top on on the bottom was rounding out to excape... So I said let me try and at least get one blank out of this.... I tighted tension thinking that was the problem and flipped it over and tried again but this time it just bowed the other direction hahahaha... Murphy's law right? So I tried to sand that down and for the most part was able to get the right thickness but on one side showed on the right of the picture...

pending attempt 3) feeling defeated I've been just thinking about what else I can do so I have an idea... This time I measured Brads horn got an average of 3.5mm thickness so I marked on each side of this blank 4mm and now I know what can be wasted (shown on left of picture) I'm going to get a dremel and cut the line to kind of convince the blade to go in the path of least resistance...

the reason this is a pending attempt is because I first wanted to pick the brains of the elite and see what you guys think about my plan or if there is something more I should do... Recommendations are welcome before I waste my 3 piece of horn

Sorry I have the blanks all stacked like dominos, my two kids where taking over the table now that I was using it of course... So this was the room I had to work with lmao

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