Thread: Possible to use as scales...

What GeauLSU says sounds reasonable. You would have to fill - sand - fill -sand until you evened everything out, then cover everything with the smae medium. Make sure it is perfectly dry. You might still get some stress-cracking due to differential movement over time.

I haven't seen that sort of pitting before. I'm guessing that this is from the inner part of the horn and is part of the living material (horn is just keratin, like nails or hair - dead - the outer layer) making the transition from bone to keratin.

The keratin layers are laid down like a sheath or covering over a core of bone, which obviously has its own infrastructure of capillaries and nerves. Perhaps the closer you get to this, the less keratinised the sheath is.

They still look good though - you have made some nice scales!

Regards,
Neil