Andy Dingley wrote:
snip a tale of pocket knife reconstruction

The temptation is to glue the scales to the liners, which is dead easy
but doesn't usually work too well. There's a lot of bending here and
an inelastic adhesive will tend to break off. As many liners are
brass, it can be a real problem. Personally (for repairs) I like to
leave the stumps of old rivets behind as crude dowel pins.

Think I'll stick to boatsG.

BTW, might try some epoxy thickened with microballoons as an adhesive
for the scales/liners connection.

Yields a much better joint than plain epoxy.

Lew