How do you like your horns?

[Moleman]

How do you like your horns? Heavily embellished with scrimshaw , just a bit of scrimshaw or plain and simple.
I'm getting ready to build a few and was curious how folks prefer theirs.

 

[Banjoman]

Plain and simple.

 

[Thingamajiggy]

Normally plain and simple but golly I've seen gorgeous ones by PathfinderNC that I'd love to have.

 

[Banjoman]

Normally plain and simple but golly I've seen gorgeous ones by PathfinderNC that I'd love to have.

Yeah, he makes good stuff.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Primitive.

 

[RiverRat]

My southern horn made by Mike Small.

 

[Larry (Omaha)]

How do you like your horns? Heavily embellished with scrimshaw , just a bit of scrimshaw or plain and simple.
I'm getting ready to build a few and was curious how folks prefer theirs.

Simple, for my use, with one small brass star and a little carving on the plug. I do however appreciate good scrimshaw. Not to be confused with scratching the horn like a wanaby artist. Don't get me wrong a feller has to start somewhere, but scratching isn't scrimshaw IMO.
Larry

 

[S.Kenton]

I have both simple and scrimshawed but my favorite all around horn is simple.. yet elegant.

 

[oldwood]

When I go to a m/l gun show , and a horn supply guy is there , I pick ugley , bent small unique ones . Sometimes they bring pre flattened ones I like. I buy some of those kind too. The small horns , fit under a generous size flap on bags I make up , to keep them out of rainy weather. I've been priviledged to chase deer in the late season Pa. flint lock hunt. Weather can be nice , or really nasty at the 2600 Ft. high mountains , and those small ugly horns serve me well. I am a utilitarian horn maker. I couldn't do scrimshaw , if I tried. Rifle art , yea , horns , no.

 

[Antelope Pete]

I'm in the west so not much scrimshaw but I like worked necks and spouts. Something that looks like somebody put at least some work into.

 

[SciAggie]

I like both. I have simple horns for my plains style rifles. I have more ornate horns for my jaeger and carved/engraved rifles.

 

[Old Bear]

How do you like your horns? Heavily embellished with scrimshaw , just a bit of scrimshaw or plain and simple.
I'm getting ready to build a few and was curious how folks prefer theirs.

I like scrimshaw one of my builds . The inscription says old bear on each end and old bear in Sue in the center.

 

[Cruzatte]

I like mine with worked spouts; lobes, facets, that sort of thing, maybe a hand whittled stopper, a domed butt plug with a staple, and simple, geometric designs scrimshawed at the base of the horn, & a capacity suitable for an early trade gun.

 

[Eutycus]

Plain and simple.

I'd go along with Plain and Simple. Functional, I think they call it.

 

[Trigger]

Italian horn.

I'm fine with plastic stuff.... carbon fiber..
Could it be made?

They make a plastic thing for car keys..

It's there anything in Africa that works?

 

[oreclan]

How do you like your horns? Heavily embellished with scrimshaw , just a bit of scrimshaw or plain and simple.
I'm getting ready to build a few and was curious how folks prefer theirs.

My favorites are simple, curved and have some folk art on them; although I love a double curved horn.
I don't hold with many people's idea of a right hand carry; however. I go with what I learned from Roland Cadle back in the 1970's. A right hand horn comes from the right side of the animal's head.
I don't like the spout pointing in and down as you lean over or kneel.
A right hand or left hand horn can be adapted to be carried on either side.

 

[Trigger]

Oxen horn I think

 

[Eutycus]

One if mine even has some JB Weld filling up the "bug" holes. It gives it that speckled look. But hey, the horn serves it's purpose.

 

[Uncle Miltie]

Am I gonna say it? Yeah, I'll say it: the proper term for scratching on a horn is engraving, not scrimshaw. There, I said it....

 

[Rató:rats]

My horn
A little carving
I wouldn’t call it scrimshaw because I think scrimshaw is specific to whale bone