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A covered tang rebuild
An interesting project..
An ivory tang Rodgers, with shattered ivory.. heres a little picture story of how it got re-built.
Pic1: ground down tang
http://www.adrian.edu/%7Ebmaggard/944.JPG
Pic2: further grinding, drilled out shaft in Ivory Paper micarta. Notched some teeth in the blade's tang so epoxy would hold well. also, it fit so tightly in the shaft, I had to use a rubber mallet to get it all the way in :D
http://www.adrian.edu/%7Ebmaggard/953.JPG
Pic3: Epoxied in
http://www.adrian.edu/%7Ebmaggard/955.JPG
Pic 4&5: Shaping
http://www.adrian.edu/%7Ebmaggard/954.JPG
http://www.adrian.edu/%7Ebmaggard/956.JPG
Pic6: getting there.. still a little too thick. I took it back to the belts after this.
http://www.adrian.edu/%7Ebmaggard/957.JPG
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Wow!!! An excellent work! Beautiful and well done!
Antoni
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Nice work Brad! Thanks for sharing the steps you took :)
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Thanks for sharing the detailed process. Very cool. I love the result.
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Looks great.would have givin you a nice pce of real ivory to do the repair, maybe next time.
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I like the wedge. Can we have a closer look at it?
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Very nicely done Brad :tu
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Nice save :) gives me ideas for others I have seen.
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Very elegant. Can't wait to see what you do next.