Burned horn fix???

[blacksmithman64]

Any of you feller's have a better way of repairing a burn hole in a horn? I did this with some 2 part epoxy and some horn dust, but looking for something a little less noticeable. Any suggestions?

 

[LRB]

Really nice horn there! Use 2 part epoxy with a little carbon black in it. Horn dust is not as fine as the soot, and is the base ingredient for most all black paints, epoxies, ect. Then you can sand it to match the horn texture. It would probably be best to dig out all the burn so there would be no brown involved.

 

[omarick1948]

SW, What Wick said!...I have did it with epoxy mixed with powdered Tempra paint. Worked pretty good to cover a small area where I filed a little to deep on a spout!

That spiraled spout looks great!

Rick

 

[BrownBear]

If you want a whole lot of control on this and future epoxy projects, check into the coloring agents for epoxy sold through boat repair supply houses. I use them all the time for making epoxy bodies on flies. They come in about a dozen colors including brown, black, white and gray. You can blend to produce a perfect color match. For the small quantity of epoxy you'd use on this job, you probably need a bit of the coloring agent about the size of a pin head. A little of that stuff goes a long, long ways. Handy to have a selection of those little color tubes in a drawer any time you have to match colors for repairs.

 

[BrownBear]

I just checked my own stock, and they're 1 oz tubes from Rocket Plastics Company in Montgomery, Ohio. Googling didn't turn up anything on them, but did yield this source. Looks like 2 oz jugs at $7.98, but based on experience, I'm betting 2 oz is enough to color the Queen Mary or some other ocean liner.

I did find the zact same stuff I have here, but at $9.99 for the 1 oz tubes. Looks like their stocks of certain colors are out, too. Prices must have gone up a bunch, because when I bought mine about 10 years ago, they were marked $2.98 a tube.

Go with the 2 oz source for lots less money and color a few ocean liners with the extra. :rotf:

 

[ladysmithtrading]

System 3 epoxy, they have a web site, many tinted hardeners and several different type fillers to add to their products, Ive been using there stuff in place or arca glas on bedding barrels and fixing inlet boo boos, alot cheaper in the long run, products perform very well!