My new horn

[rabjr]

You know he used hot sand to pack it with, to reshape it? Quite a process he went through to round it. :thumbsup:

I decided to do something that I haven't done in several years. I decided to heat the entire horn very slowly... then plug the spout hole with a piece of leather on the inside of the horn and keeping the horn constantly hot. Pack the inside of the cavity with hot sand and keep tamping with my forming plug and BIG HARDWOOD MALLET to slowly bump out and round the horn body.

Too many times a person comes across a great horn, but the oval cross section of the horn deters some from rounding the entire body or base and they just find it quicker to just slap on a simple natural base plug and make do! I guess that's OK, but through a little or sometimes, a lot of effort. You can turn a SO SO horn into a nice symmetrical powder horn!

I first heat the entire horn in hot oil....then quickly wipe off the oil, inside and out and spray with Simple Green and quickly wipe again. I then immediately heat-up the horn again with my hot air gun. Plug the spout hole (on this one) and start packing hot damp sand into the horn and tamp hard and heavy with my BIG BERTHA wood maul! I think the steam from the damp sand helps! I put a long pony cabinet clamp on it from the spout tip to form handle...then clamp down to cool till the next day!

The sand is just regular sand heated on my charcoal grill with a little water added. Nothing special!

 

[MSW]

You know he used hot sand to pack it with, to reshape it? Quite a process he went through to round it. :thumbsup:

I decided to do something that I haven't done in several years. I decided to heat the entire horn very slowly... then plug the spout hole with a piece of leather on the inside of the horn and keeping the horn constantly hot. Pack the inside of the cavity with hot sand and keep tamping with my forming plug and BIG HARDWOOD MALLET to slowly bump out and round the horn body.

Too many times a person comes across a great horn, but the oval cross section of the horn deters some from rounding the entire body or base and they just find it quicker to just slap on a simple natural base plug and make do! I guess that's OK, but through a little or sometimes, a lot of effort. You can turn a SO SO horn into a nice symmetrical powder horn!

I first heat the entire horn in hot oil....then quickly wipe off the oil, inside and out and spray with Simple Green and quickly wipe again. I then immediately heat-up the horn again with my hot air gun. Plug the spout hole (on this one) and start packing hot damp sand into the horn and tamp hard and heavy with my BIG BERTHA wood maul! I think the steam from the damp sand helps! I put a long pony cabinet clamp on it from the spout tip to form handle...then clamp down to cool till the next day!

The sand is just regular sand heated on my charcoal grill with a little water added. Nothing special!

cool post - thanks! I have a similar horn which was going to have an oval plug, but now maybe i can have it round...

make good smoke!

 

[Tony Logan]

Wow great horn and I love the before and after pictures.

 

[Ken Cormier]

Dang all I can think of to say is WOW WOW WOW and WOW again

 

[rabjr]

It really is quite enjoyable to do a little diggin around and research something and then watch your thoughts come to life. Enjoyed every minute of the gun builds and this just as much. I could have just bought a ready made horn online and scratched a few lines into it and called it my horn for my new smoothbore...I'm so glad I gave it a second thought. :grin: :thumbsup:

 

[shortbow]

Out stand ing!

 

[bwhoffman]

Rick & Rich.........

WOW!

 

[chance]

Really Great!!!

 

[rabjr]

It's even better in person! :bow:

 

[Short Arm]

Swampy, Nice horn, nice bag. And the three rifles look pretty good also. :hatsoff: Enjoy

 

[hoochiepapa]

Is there a green with envy smiley?

 

[Ken Cormier]

wow wow wow enough from me.

 

[ladysmithtrading]

Swampy, nice kit buddy, everything works well together including the topping off with the Welshmans straps, well done boys, all of you!

 

[Mickc01]

You are the man!!! :bow: