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[tenngun]

I can’t draw a straight line. I tried my first scrimshaw on my salt horn
I offer it for a chuckle

 

[david w]

I think its OK.

 

[SDSmlf]

Looks good. Has that folk art look to it.

 

[hawkeye2]

Nothing wrong with that, folk art. There were probably more horns than we can imagine with work like that that are now lost. Your rhyme has a folksy flavor (pun) to it also.

 

[david w]

Nothing wrong with that, folk art. There were probably more horns than we can imagine with work like that that are now lost. Your rhyme has a folksy flavor (pun) to it also.

A good number of horns were "folk art". Professionally scrimshawed horns were expensive then, and expensive today.

 

[jdw276]

Sitting around a fire at night, almost no light, using a pocket knife or a sharp nail from a blacksmith or out of a dead horse hoof, can imagine very easily this look. Could even have had many misspellings in how we view words these days as well. I would enjoy making that and carrying it at a rondi with a story like that.

 

[tenngun]

Thank you all

 

[windini]

Looks good to me as well!

 

[R Ellis]

have to start somewhere you will do better keep trying

 

[Woody Morgan]

I can’t draw a straight line. I tried my first scrimshaw on my salt horn
I offer it for a chuckle View attachment 137129View attachment 137129

A lot of our forebears couldn't either.
I like it.

wm

 

[Stub]

We all pass on sooner or later and many times the things we leave behind for our kids and grand kids mean the most to them if it something we made.

 

[azmntman]

I couldn't do as well

 

[user 49399]

I like it! It’s better than I could do.

 

[Kansas Jake]

I like it too. The fantastic ones some folks show here are way beyond my skill level.

 

[fishmanbeene]

Looks good.

 

[LSB]

Looks pretty good to me.

 

[Robby]

I can’t draw a straight line. I tried my first scrimshaw on my salt horn
I offer it for a chuckle View attachment 137129View attachment 137129

Your a poet and didn't realize it.
Robby

 

[tenngun]

But my feet show it
Their longfellows

 

[deerstalkert]

I even type alone

can't
straight...let
scrimshaw !

 

[granth]

I love the "folk" look of the scrimshawing you did. I think it adds more character than a "neat" scrimshawed horn. Looks like something a bored frontiersman would make in his spare time.