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Making trade goods for the spring. Also trying to figure out my photo processing on this machine. Hope it works!
This is a French and Indian Wars/ Pre-Revolutionary War type. The design is the coat of arms of George III.
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Awesome powder horn!
if it does not impede on your sales, I would love to see a write up of how you make those.
Superb!
I would like to have the skill to make one with my family coat of arms.
Dibs if you make it big lol.
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Originally Posted by rancher1913
There are some good instruction books out now on how to do it. Scott Sibley has a good instruction book available through Amazon. When I did my first one 40 years ago, I didn't have a clue. I met Scott around 35 years ago, when he was just getting started in the horn business. His book gives a better description than I would be able to give you.
I could most likely do one with your coat of arms.Quote:
Originally Posted by labradigger1
That would be a keepsake for sure/EdQuote:
Originally Posted by waksupi
Beautiful Horn Waksupi!
Looks beautiful Ric! How much powder do you think it will hold?
Nice horn Ric....like much of the work you do, it's top notch!
Russ...
I'm thinking pretty close to a pound.Quote:
Originally Posted by taco650
Nice looking horn. thanks for the look at it!:goodpost:
Thank you for sharing this with us. your work is excellent.
great work as usual, ric.
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You're definitely a horner, Ric ! ;)
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Some time in the distant past, I read an article on powder horn scrimshaw in Muzzleloader Magazine. I managed to get my hands on some dye to rub into the scratch marks and made a horn for a guy who owns a winemaking outfit in the Santa Cruz mountains of Kalifonistanzikhan. It involved transferring a pattern using tracing paper but it has been so long ago that I forgot how I did it. The horn turned out great and it hangs over his fireplace now. It was a copy of his wine label. Any ideas on a technique like that Waksupi?
I kind of surprised myself with how nice it turned out and it didn't require much artistic talent on my part. Your work shows artistic talent where my success was more like a "paint by numbers" sort of thing.
I cannot imagine doing it off tracing paper. I would think that trying to put a flat image to a curved and tapering horn would be a challenge! I have enough trouble with the art doing it free-hand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Newtire
it's beautiful
I have a buffalo horn I want to make into
a powder horn
keep it up b-cause your skill is going the way of the DINOSAUR! it is truly a work of art!.
Yeah, funny that I don't remember a thing about how I got that design transferred. It was in the bigger end of the horn. I'm not any sort of an artist by any stretch of imagination. It'll come to me someday I reckon. They say the first thing to go is...is...whatever it was!Quote:
Originally Posted by waksupi