Wood glue syringes.....where?

Don't thin epoxy for a use like this. The solvent must evaporate before the epoxy hardens or it will be trapped in the mix and the properties will be poor. That is how epoxy paint works.
 
Surgical tubing will certainly do the job, but a strip cut from a bicycle inner tube will do it almost as well and it can be had for free from most any bicycle shop. Large rubber bands looped together will also do the job.
 
^ never thought about bike tubes, I always have those laying around. As for needles, I bought a few different thicknesses from London Drugs for $0.30 each
 
Wood glue is a poor choice for tang repairs. One of the 6000lb 2 part epoxy is much better, that is usually what is used by companies that specialize in these repairs. Generally, unless you can open up the crack, it is difficult to get epoxy to all the crack surface. One trick that does work is to drill a hole into the crack, the same size as a hardwood dowel, from whatever side will show the least. The hole is then filled with the epoxy, and the dowel is used like a piston, to force epoxy throug the entire crack. Often fine threaded rod is used in the same fashion, again used like a piston. But if the stock is heavily oiled, no glue or epoxy will stick to it.
 
Give it a couple of days to finish a full cure. There's fingernail hard in a few hours and 95% from overnight but most resins continue to cure for up to a month for that final percent or two. But if you give it a couple of days you should be fine to do whatever you wish.
 
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