1750's Horn

[Chris Cade]

bought this horn roughed out on the bay. i just finished it for a friend of mine in florida. been wanting to try a 1750's style horn and i put my favorite quote from ben franklin. hand made the chain, wish it was a heavier gauge of wire but that's all i could find. enjoy!

 

[ladysmithtrading]

Nicley executed! :bow: :thumbsup:

 

[AeroncaTAL]

Nice work! :thumbsup:
Your friend is going to enjoy that.
Scott

 

[longshot47]

Very nice file work! :thumbsup:

 

[Roy]

Very nice work :thumbsup:

 

[smo]

Great work :thumbsup:

 

[longcruise]

Looks very nice.

Just tried my first scrim the other day on an unremarkable hunting horn that I made a few years back.

Nowhere near as nice as yours. What tools do you scratch with? Did mine with an Exacto knife and found it very hard to control. Then again, maybe I'm just a rotten scrimmer! :redface:

 

[jethro224]

You have a lucky friend. Very nice work. :thumbsup:

 

[Chris Cade]

thanx fellows! marmot, i use a small angled lathe knife sharpened to a thick, razor sharp edge. i first tried an exacto knife but the blade was too thin and flexable.

 

[longcruise]

I'm full of dumb questions! What the heck is a lathe knife?

 

[mazo kid]

Mechslasher, I could be your friend...a really GOOD friend!!

 

[paulvallandigham]

Look these tools up in Woodcraft.com's site. But to answer your question, a lathe knife is usually a cutting tool that has an angled edge to the length of the shaft, usually set at 30 degrees, and the bevels are cut on both sides of the shart to create a knife like edge. They are almost as functional as a real knife in whittling wood, only they are built much more strongly to withstand the force of that machine-turned vise that holds the workpiece. It is often used as a cutoff tool when you don't have room for the typically 1/8" wide blade on the standard cutoff tool.