Kinda different scrimshaw

[87TT]

That a Great Horned Owl?

 

[Rifleman1776]

scrimshaw is a proper term for engraving done on whale's teeth.

Whales teeth may have been the original done by bored sailors. But scrim is the technique applicable to almost any material.

 

[springfield art]

My wife does scrimshaw work, not the "period correct" type necessarily. We have been to the Dixons gun fair and the one last year(came home with about 40 horns) and I would love to see her try the kind you would expect on a powder horn.
Thought I would post 1 she did recently to see what everybody thinks. She does it all freehand, no stencils. She also does pyrography on walking sticks.
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Forty horns? That's almost a whole orchestra! "Seventy Six trombones led the big parade, forty more cow horns followed by!"

 

[ohiochuck]

Very nice work!
I would not be able to even trace it
Jim

 

[Teliliad]

My wife does scrimshaw work, not the "period correct" type necessarily. We have been to the Dixons gun fair and the one last year(came home with about 40 horns) and I would love to see her try the kind you would expect on a powder horn.
Thought I would post 1 she did recently to see what everybody thinks. She does it all freehand, no stencils. She also does pyrography on walking sticks.
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That’s amazing! Does she take custom orders?

 

[Thingamajiggy]

Looks like there's plenty of talent there to do more period correct style horns but either way, that one's a beauty.

 

[pajeepman]

That’s amazing! Does she take custom orders?

She has done a few for local people. She turns them into rattles. Only a few powder horns have been done, imported water buffalo ones.

 

[Teliliad]

She has done a few for local people. She turns them into rattles. Only a few powder horns have been done, imported water buffalo ones.

We’ll, it’ll be a while before I get started making my powder horn anyway.

 

[GREENSWLDE]

Pajeepete's Wife.. That Owl is Fantastic.!! The tanented thinking to leave the horn colour around the Pupils with only a he touch of flecking makes them Alive.. Please lets see MORE MORE & MORE. OLD DOG..

 

[Absoroka]

There are a half dozen really good books that show original horns, mostly from the F & I and Revolutionary War periods If she wants to make historic replicas. She has a good eye.

 

[GREENSWLDE]

SORRY ABOUT THE MISS SPELLING . SHOULD HAVE READ "TALENTED" & ONLY "THE" TOUCH... O.D.