Horn Tip Powder measure

[Stophel]

I made this the other day, finished it today. First thing I have been able to make in a long time! Felt good!

It's a cow horn tip, that was very light in color. I gave it a little color with some "Magic Maple" stain (which, as I understand it, is essentially Chromium Trioxide). Then washed it off/neutralized it with baking soda. Not a bad color, and you can actually see the carving and shaping details now, whereas it was hard to even see the octagon flats when it was white!

 

[user 922]

Nicely done - a lot of fine detail there.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Very pretty. Artistic and tasteful.

 

[wattlebuster]

I like it :hatsoff:

 

[hawkthrower]

Very well done. Would be a nice addition to anyones kit.

Ron

 

[Billnpatti]

Sa-weet!!! I really envy you and your talent. I wish I knew how to make things like that. I am a woodworker but I make furniture, boxes, trunks, etc. But I am not a carver. I have made several muzzleloading rifles but my carving is no show piece. Not ugly, just not professional. I have made powder horns and antler tip powder measures but nothing that could hold a candle to your work. Well done, indeed! An envious tip of my hat to you :hatsoff:

 

[Stophel]

Thanks all.

I don't know if it would really be considered "carving". It's all done by filing. :wink:

 

[Spikebuck]

If I may ask, what kind of tools do you use for a project like this? Is it all file work?

 

[Stophel]

There's nothing to making these things. Most old ones were probably made by folks sitting at the fireplace in the dead of winter when they had nothing else to do.

Tools used were a bandsaw (to cut the horn tip off the horn and slab off some of the excess, it was a pretty fat tip), a drill bit in a brace to drill out the hole, then it was roughly shaped on a grinder (horn grinds pretty easy) and then filed out.

I'm out of antler tips, maybe I can pick up something tomorrow at Bledsoe's Fort colonial fair (I "need" some horns too... :grin: ). Antler tips require much less rough shaping (since they are skinnier to begin with), but antler is MUCH harder and slower to work with.

 

[MSW]

that is really pretty!

 

[S.Kenton]

I like that alot! Now ya have me thinking about rummaging through my trash to find some horn tips!

 

[suzkat]

Stophel, I'm amazed that you were able to file these so carefully that they look like they were turned on a lathe. How many hours would you say it took to make this? Outstanding work.

 

[Stophel]

I don't know. Two or three hours, maybe. Definitely no more than that.

 

[kaintuck]

looks like a RR pipe!...pretty neat! :thumbsup:

 

[dbutch]

:thumbsup: Time well spent...Great addition!

 

[50cal.cliff]

Turned out real nice! How much powder does she throw?

 

[Stophel]

I made it 80 grains, so it's fairly big. :wink:

 

[nessmuk]

Very well done!!! A neat looking measure!!!

 

[Robby]

That is a real nice job Stophel!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Robby

 

[Rick Son]

Scutterbotch Looks good enough to eat,how do ya get everything so strieght and level!I know a feller that makes pipe tampers out of antler like that..Papa Dukes..Wouldn't mind havin one of those myself! Very nice~