The fractal dimension of particles is commonly evaluated from complete particle boundaries. In this work, a study has been made of the self-similar nature of complete and incomplete boundary profiles of a range of morphologically different copper powders. Boundary images were captured from SEM micrographs of particle boundaries at a range of magnifications up to nearly 14000X. An algorithm was developed to compute the fractal dimension of boundary segments. This algorithm was tested against the Koch Island fractal, and was found to give excellent estimates of the fractal dimension. For the particle system studied, the boundary fractal was found to be sensitive to magnification with appreciable drops in value at high magnification. This demonstrates that the particles studied did not have true fractal boundaries and the use of fractal theory to study particle surface roughness must be used with caution.