Making a Powder Horn (Part 1)

[Philip Lebow]

Forgive my obscure question: I was under the impression that some of the pins in horns were made of horn. I knew that some plugs were put in with thorns, but not plain dowel pins. Thanks all, for your patience. Told you I was a neophyte!
So, wood dowels are OK, just stain them black if I want them black, and use maple if I want them white? Don't need to be bone or ivory (yikes) for white?

 

[PathfinderNC]

Forgive my obscure question: I was under the impression that some of the pins in horns were made of horn. I knew that some plugs were put in with thorns, but not plain dowel pins. Thanks all, for your patience. Told you I was a neophyte!
So, wood dowels are OK, just stain them black if I want them black, and use maple if I want them white? Don't need to be bone or ivory (yikes) for white?

Nothing wrong about asking questions! That's how we learn.
I use dowels from the hardware store. They seem to do fine

 

[Colonial Boy]

Somehow I missed this thread, only just picked up on it. WOW

 

[Boatncamp]

Thank you for posting this! I have hopeful plans that during the next two years I will complete two Kibler rifles either the Woodsrunner or Colonial as gifts for my grandsons in honor of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. To go with them I hope to do powder horns and so this is just awesome help.

My question is the color changes that you have on your horns, it can't be natural as nature rarely does straight lines. How is this obtained? Also, as I will want to scrimshaw the horns, how are you able to get horns of lighter color as places such as Crazy Crow don't post pictures of each horn they have. I know ebay sellers are posting pictures of the exact horn or group you are buying. Also, what is a reasonable price for a raw horn? The prices seem to be all over the place.

Again, Thank you for posting this and I look forward to part II

Woody

 

[WALT53]

Nothing wrong about asking questions! That's how we learn.
I use dowels from the hardware store. They seem to do fine

Great tutorial thankyou for your sharing this information.