Duplicate bones along with bone weight?

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Hi all, is there a way to duplicate a bone, along with the bone weight? Tried using the “Transfer weights” function, but that seems to only work when using 2 separate meshes.

I’m trying to improve on a model’s rigging, and it has 1 eyebrow bone connected to the entire brow region. I’m trying to duplicate that brow bone, and remove half the weights from each bone respectively so I can have two bones controlling either side of the brow region.

/uploads/default/original/4X/4/7/e/47e181e24bc9c47cb275f017d802dbab832edef1.pngstc=1 Image of what I’m working with, if it helps. The unselected bone has no weights, but is duplicated from the original. Any help would be appreciated!

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You can just copy the vertex group of the original bone and then rename it so that it has the same name as the copied bone.

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Wasn’t aware that renaming a vertex group caused it to be linked to a bone of the same name. Thanks for the help!