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    Brad Maggard Undream's Avatar
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    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


    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


    Pic3: Epoxied in



    Pic 4&5: Shaping





    Pic6: getting there.. still a little too thick. I took it back to the belts after this.
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    Pic7: Drill..


    Pics of finished:








    Forgot to mention.. The wedge I made out of a piece of 440C stainless, which was then polished up

    Last edited by Undream; 11-02-2011 at 02:50 PM.

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    Wow!!! An excellent work! Beautiful and well done!

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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

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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.

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