Inspired by Forum

All these awesome powder horn photos has inspired me to re-work my old horn and even create a new 105gr (apprx) powder measure to match my other horn crafted items which I modified over the past few days. I'm bad and used a dremel tool, files, sandpaper and an exacto knife. They may not be show room quality but I had fun making them. I whipped up the powder measure last night after reading these posts and seeing the fine work shared by others. I love this hobby!

Here's the other wild side of my horn. Not traditional but I was just practicing. I made it 10 years ago but re-worked the spout last week to make it a bit more authentic.

 

[elee]

Great work Jaegermeister! I love the map and ship...am considering a map of the Isles of Shoals and the Piscataqua river for my next horn....the shoals were first settled in 1609 and are but a few miles from my house. I find this forum inspiring as well....it is really great to find others into the same stuff as myself!
Keep carving!
ELee

 

[Jimrogers]

Don't know what you're apologizing for. Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb about.

Nice work and a superb horn.

 

[Ohio Rusty]

Very nice engrailing job where the white of the horn meets the black. I'm going to be doing a horn in the future, and I would like to put the smae style of engrailing scalloping along the edge. How did you do yours? With a dremel ball? Any extra precautions you took to get it that nice looking ???
Ohio Rusty

 

Ohio Rusty, Thank you and yes I used a dremel bit but it was a small cylinder shaped cutter. I just eyeballed the spacing and came straight down from above with the bit went to town with it! There's not a thing fancy about my stuff but I know how I want it to look and I was going for something that a man could've done during some long cold nights with limited skills, not a fine work of proffesional art. The trick is not to be afraid to just jump in and go for it. Here is a pic of how the spout looked before I altered it. I carved the wild stuff on the spout 10 years ago so when I changed it I made changes to my priming horn so they would match. That's when I was inspired to make a matching powder measure with that scalloped look. See what a difference an hour and a dremel tool can make.

As far as precautions go just be VERY careful with the high speed rotory tool. True gunbuilders loath them, I love them so you know where that puts me! Here is another after photo so you can compare. I'm sure lots of things can be altered for a different look.

(Don't tell anyone but I used black model paint on the spouts :shocking

 

[Claude Mathis]

Great looking horn! Nice work.
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