Hi all, sorry to take a while to catch up on these emails...

On 15/01/16 00:25, yorkshireman@y... wrote:
> I’d go with hide glue - epoxy has no give for the small changes due to
temperature.  Hide glue doesn’t have much, but at least its more likely to fail
than crack the ebony.

Thank you, Richard, that strikes me as good advice. I was all ready to 
slather on some epoxy (been using it a bit lately to do marking knife 
scales) but I'd hate to risk cracking the ebony. Hide glue it is!

Cheers,
Philip.