Knife Scale Replacement Ideas

[Sea Monster]

I was clearing out the garage and came upon an old lockback knife.

There's nothing special about it, a brandless made in japan situation, chrome plated handle with plastic "grips"

The plastic on both sides has cracked, and therefore the rivets are loose, making the whole knife nice and floppy.

It's basically worthless (or worth whatever someone would pay for it, I suppose), but it has sentimental value as I got it from the old man about 20 years back, so I thought it might be nice to fix it up a bit and give it a bit more life. Nothing too fancy, I don't want to inlay it with mother of pearl, I just want to make it usable again.

I was thinking of drilling out the rivets, throwing the plastic away, filling the space with resin, then re-rivet.

Anyone with a bit of experience in this sort of thing got any suggestions?

(If I can find a picture of the same design knife, I'll link it for reference)



Edit:Just like this one, but with cracked plastics -

[Mechanickal]

Depending on skillset, you could build new scales from wood?

[Sea Monster]

I'm not particularly good with wood, and I'd hate to spend all that time lovingly sanding a piece of wood to fit only to split it as soon as I go to reassemble it all.

[Sparky415]

You could try some Stag horn 
I find it to be quite forgiving to work with
Or you could try some micarta?

There are a few I've done in this thread
https://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,29267.350.html

[Sea Monster]

I accidentally spent an hour reading your thread and forgot why I went there.

One take-away was the idea of peening the rods directly onto the inner handle pieces, and gluing anything I come up with over the top, which drops the risk of whatever I use failing in the same way as the original plastic.

[Sparky415]

So all you have to do now is decide what to use for new scales
Pet shops sometimes sell bits of stag as dog chews for about 6 quid