Since this isn't engraved I didn't want to pollute the other post, but here is a treatment I recently gave to one of my projects. In the first photo you see the ingredients, a hard plastic grip cap begging for an inlay, a sterling silver Celtic broach I picked up at a summer Highland festival for about $12, and a small pack of bakable polymer clay from the craft store. I had baked a few test pieces before hand as "proof of concept" and found them adequately strong and machinable/polishable. (don't look too close at my crude checkering that is a work in progress...)



After forming the clay around the broach and baking I filed the edges to get the shape of the inlay, tinted some Accraglass gel, and pasted it all together.



Once everything set up I filed and sanded it back so that the silver was flush with the enclosing matrix and put on a couple coats of paste wax to preclude the silver from tarnishing. As you can see I could have used a little more dye in the accraglass, but the overall effect turned out OK. It actually looks a bit better at normal scale and viewing distances so that the numerous flaws are not magnified.



I am always on the lookout for decorative eliptical pieces of jewlery, etc. that would work for similar inlays. It's tough to find things of the right size and shape that aren't too girly. I think I got lucky with this piece. I will see if I can do a better job on the next one...

P.S. this is the stock for my swede carbine project I recently blued with photos here: My rust blueing post

I see possibilites there. The silver Celtic inlet looks good. hope the clay isn't brittle.

I could live with that on the right rifle



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