A month or so ago, I posted a few pictures of a priming horn I made out of a cows horn I found out in the desert. That was the first time I did any horn work and I sort of got bit. So at the Western Regional I bought a copy of Sibley’s book and a horn to fool around with.
I still work part time with a dentist who did an excellent job last year on a .36 Shenandoah kit, his first build. I thought that a nice birthday present would be a carved horn if I could get it to turn out ok.
Sibley’s book is a must, but so is the tutorial by Hawken 12 on this forum. He has many good tips on layout and inking the carvings””a big help for us first-timers. I found that inking the carvings as you go along with the Rit stain used to stain the snout is easier to clean up than India ink.
I showed Harvey’s horn to Roger Mortenson, the Mountain Man. Maybe some of you who attend the Western Regionals know Roger, he always has the first vendor tent on traders row. He had me fool around with one of his horns for his own use. The eagle is the same, but I loved that old Lobo. Gonna use him again in some other scenes I have in mind.
One thing I like about carving horns is that there doesn’t seem to be any “schools” to get in trouble with the PC police. Except for some southern banded specimens, the Tansel fishface and the generic “His Horn,” the artwork is all over the place.
I need some advice. I would like to make a matched main horn and primer.
1) How is the best way to hang them from the bagstrap to both look good and be useful, any pictures?
2) When did they begin to use brass spouts and valves, any in the flint period?
3) Has anyone found on the computer the old style printing font common to the old horns? I have to copy my carvings and printing, I can’t free-hand worth a damn!
Thanking you in advance,
Wirewiz
I still work part time with a dentist who did an excellent job last year on a .36 Shenandoah kit, his first build. I thought that a nice birthday present would be a carved horn if I could get it to turn out ok.
Sibley’s book is a must, but so is the tutorial by Hawken 12 on this forum. He has many good tips on layout and inking the carvings””a big help for us first-timers. I found that inking the carvings as you go along with the Rit stain used to stain the snout is easier to clean up than India ink.
I showed Harvey’s horn to Roger Mortenson, the Mountain Man. Maybe some of you who attend the Western Regionals know Roger, he always has the first vendor tent on traders row. He had me fool around with one of his horns for his own use. The eagle is the same, but I loved that old Lobo. Gonna use him again in some other scenes I have in mind.
One thing I like about carving horns is that there doesn’t seem to be any “schools” to get in trouble with the PC police. Except for some southern banded specimens, the Tansel fishface and the generic “His Horn,” the artwork is all over the place.
I need some advice. I would like to make a matched main horn and primer.
1) How is the best way to hang them from the bagstrap to both look good and be useful, any pictures?
2) When did they begin to use brass spouts and valves, any in the flint period?
3) Has anyone found on the computer the old style printing font common to the old horns? I have to copy my carvings and printing, I can’t free-hand worth a damn!
Thanking you in advance,
Wirewiz
