How come, folks leave the lines showing on horns ?. personal preference ?, or were most the originals like that ?..Looks like the lines made to use as a guide for the letters...just curious..I just ordered 6 raw cow horns and will soon be experimenting.
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For some reason, that's the way the majority of scrimed writing on horns seems to be. Even most of the real nice ones, but it would not be wrong to leave them off.
I just did a horn as a prize, and was both in a hurry and uninspired..I ended up with the old statement 'I powder with my brother ball, like a hero do conquer all', and didn't bother to use lines...frankly, it looked lousy to me, and I won't leave them off again..Hank
I've only done a couple, but I think the reason they are srcibed and not just temporarily drawn on is that in gripping the horn and working the lettering in you would tend to smear and rub away a pencil or inked line (especially once the sweat starts to drip down).
Some are so fine they are hardly noticable, others are very deep and bold. These were often done by the owners and were pretty crude. You can't make a "wrong" horn with hand tools and a needle for the scrimshaw.
Well, maybe you could if you used upholstery tacks to hold a plywood plug with the Harley logo scribed in red and blue ink. :hmm:
Some are so fine they are hardly noticable, others are very deep and bold. These were often done by the owners and were pretty crude. You can't make a "wrong" horn with hand tools and a needle for the scrimshaw.
Well, maybe you could if you used upholstery tacks to hold a plywood plug with the Harley logo scribed in red and blue ink. :hmm:
The reason why is that classicly trained craftsman/artist/scribes were taught to make letters between a series of parrell lines. Keep in mind that having a printing press (though in use for many years) was 'hi-tech' and not all could afford to use one.
I took a class at KSU called Lettering, Layout and Design. Oh, how I despised that class! I had the most terrible time doing the various fonts by hand. There were a few gals in the class that had such good hand skills, this stuff was easy for them.
Layout and design work was no problem, lettering, however....thank god I don't do it for a living!
I took a class at KSU called Lettering, Layout and Design. Oh, how I despised that class! I had the most terrible time doing the various fonts by hand. There were a few gals in the class that had such good hand skills, this stuff was easy for them.
Layout and design work was no problem, lettering, however....thank god I don't do it for a living!
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