re: Final turning the inside, more patching

Yeah. I think if I were to do it that way, I would leave it at least a half-inch thick, and try to figure a way to minimize the leakage.

When I accidentally “glued” two knife scales together stabilizing them years ago, I found that baked cactus juice with no wood to hold it together is pretty brittle, and a cold chisel placed between the two pieces and given a sharp rap broken them apart with minimal collateral damage. But Curtis has reformulated Cactus Juice since then, maybe twice, so maybe it doesn’t behave the same? A guy could always call him and ask. I found him friendly and helpful the couple times I had questions.