Thread: Inlays in horn

You may be able to "brand it" in. About the only thing I haven't tried with horn. You can bend and shape horn with a hair dryer. I tried some heating methods with and without oil in toaster oven but what a mess that turned into. Made horn bacon and that ended that experiment. The funk took 2 years to leave the garage and had to hazmat the oven :<0) Soaking does make horn soft like it does your finger nails but not sure that would help pressing a thin plate into it. I would just cut it in if I were to do it. You don'y see a lot of detail in those old inlays that I recall. Diamonds shapes and such are easy enough to cut out.