First Powder Horn Finished

[rebuse]

Well, I finaly finished my first powder horn. Thought I'd ask for sugestions on how I could improve. I know that I need to get better at controling my blade, but other then that.. :hatsoff:

"I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."

Preacher

 

Howdy Preacher, that's the beauty of american folk art horns. They were made by fellas like you and me. That is a real nice horn. I like all the filing you put on the throat and the color is great to. Preacher, that is a fine peice of art. Hard to beleive it's your first horn. Keep up the good work.
Don

 

[gordy]

Great job!If you arn't happy with it just send it to me I'll suffer with it.Keep up the good work. :hatsoff:

 

[J.D.]

Very nice work. I especially like the inscription on the banner. :thumbsup:
J.D.

 

[soggy]

"Quote" Thought I'd ask for sugestions on how I could improve.

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Well Preacher, the way I see it; you might as well quite right now; it's going to be awful hard to improve on something as nice as that.
Great job :hatsoff:
Soggy

 

[George F.]

First off you did a fine job!! Now for this being your first horn, you did a superb job. What did you use as reference? It's apperent that you've at least seen some examples.If you want to improve your work accepting criticizium, it's yery difficult for some to do that after putting part of yourself into something that you create. You can start by studying other good examples. Check out the base plug, the strap attachment, the neck, the way it's decoratively filed, the decorative detail where the large part of the horn meets the neck. Also if it has lettering, how is it layed out, did thy leave lay out lines, did they use upper case letters only or did they mix upper and lower case letters. The scrimshaw work, how is the line weight( thickness), are the lines gracefull or choppy, is the design shaded. Also the color of the horn, are they white or are they colored?. Is the spout thick or thin, how are they detailed. How did they make a spout plug.
You don't have to copy or do these details, but you should understand them. There're some good reference books out there. I can only recommend the only book I own on horns RECREATING THE 18th CENTURY POWDER HORN, by Scott & Cathy Sibly, it was around $20. There're others, Madison Grant has one or two also.
You did a fine job!!
.........George F.

 

[Boer]

Very nice, how do you get the yellow colour? Is this white horn that is coloured in some way?

 

[The Baron]

Very nice work. :hatsoff:

 

[thomas]

For a first horn you did a very good job! :thumbsup:

Thomas

 

[howdydoit]

Im going to try to build a horn soon. I just hope it turns out half a good as yours. :thumbsup:

 

[3 stinky dogs]

Very nice. How do you scrimshaw the Horne with out leaving the fuzzy lines And how did you carve it into the shape it is in .And what period would it go into ? Nice Horne

 

[shmrck1]

Preacher,
For a first horn i think it is great!
As a matter of fact the horn is outstanding if
1st or 30th. It's obvious the theme of the horn
is important to you as it should be, just wondering if that will be the theme of future
horns?
snake-eyes :hatsoff:

 

[rebuse]

Yeap, I guess you could say, I put on the horn, what was important to me. And I already have the book, "RECREATING THE 18th CENTURY POWDER HORN," by Scott & Cathy Sibly...that's where I learned about how to get the color, using a heat gun to reshape the butt and using wood pegs as securing devises to hold the butt plug in. I'll probably never do a turned butt plug, only because I don't have access to a lathe.

Preacher

 

[rebuse]

It's obvious the theme of the horn is important to you as it should be, just wondering if that will be the theme of future horns?

Yeah, I'll be doing a lot more horns with this theme. I'll be looking at a lot of Christian designs from the french and Indian War Period. I'm also using quotes from the King James Version of the Bible. Maybe I'll do some in latin as well.

Preacher

 

[hornetk4]

Preacher sir you say that you don't have a lathe , I do not yet ether but I do turn small projects on my drill press . If you have access to a drill press you have a small lathe you just work verticaly instead of horizantily . give it a try I've made projects from wood plastic and metal using my drillpress lathe.

 

[rebuse]

For the yellow, I used a whole packet of yellow-gold RIT dye and 1/4 pack of Orange-Sun RIT dye in 2 gallons of water brought to a boil...then I dipped it in for about 3 min. I did the rest in a whole bottle of Dark Brown (liquid) RIT dye in 2 gallons of boiling water. I had to dip this a little longer to get the color I wanted. Then I went over the whole thing with one lite coat of MINWAX Dark Walnut (cloth rub-in) stain. This will come in a squrt bottle and is oil based.

Preacher :hatsoff:

 

[fatboy]

Looks real nice you should be proud of that one looks like your off to a great start !