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Wow, Bill - I didn't realize you started making horns 300 years ago. 
Simply beautiful...…..
Simply beautiful...…..
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Nice work.
Very nice work!
Awesome 
Thank you
JGW006
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These are very nice. Where do you source such light colored / creamy colored horns?
JGW
I have been lucky. I started making and scrimshawing myself in the mid 70's ,
I started scrimshawing horns in the mid 70's, Most horns if you found then still had to be boiled out, to remove the part that attaches to the skull. Stinky and slimly work I will tell you. When I went to Friendship in 1980 , and was able to cherry pick a gunny sack full, all raw, but cleaned in the on grounds flea market. The horns offered mostly today somebody has belt sanded and polished the manure out of them and destroyed that white you most desire to draw upon. You have to look for the right horn, know what you are looking at, and work it by hand.
Picture shows the pile I work from when making horns,
A small group finished waiting to be drawn upon.
Single horn shows a real pristine natural black , these are the hardest to find.
Last shows' three horns, 2 cleaned raw and the center I left finished and left natural, brass pour end with a moose base, and a brass screw filler plug.
Note the flat ends, these were bobbed off before slaughter. I had to make pouring ends of brass to compensate. But you can see that white just below the yellowed surface. Some times you have to make lemon aid with what you can get. Check out the Dennis Priddy horn I made on this craftsman's forum. That was a flat end horn to start.
E bay now and then has a decent horn for sale , both finished and raw cleaned. But be wary of peoples abandonment projects , I bough nice horns, real excited to get, could not wait to see , and then to find broken drills, leaky holes, or saw cuts far to deep. Good Luck
JGW,
I started scrimshawing horns in the mid 70's, Most horns if you found then still had to be boiled out, to remove the part that attaches to the skull. Stinky and slimly work I will tell you. When I went to Friendship in 1980 , and was able to cherry pick a gunny sack full, all raw, but cleaned in the on grounds flea market. The horns offered mostly today somebody has belt sanded and polished the manure out of them and destroyed that white you most desire to draw upon. You have to look for the right horn, know what you are looking at, and work it by hand.
Picture shows the pile I work from when making horns,
A small group finished waiting to be drawn upon.
Single horn shows a real pristine natural black , these are the hardest to find.
Last shows' three horns, 2 cleaned raw and the center I left finished and left natural, brass pour end with a moose base, and a brass screw filler plug.
Note the flat ends, these were bobbed off before slaughter. I had to make pouring ends of brass to compensate. But you can see that white just below the yellowed surface. Some times you have to make lemon aid with what you can get. Check out the Dennis Priddy horn I made on this craftsman's forum. That was a flat end horn to start.
E bay now and then has a decent horn for sale , both finished and raw cleaned. But be wary of peoples abandonment projects , I bough nice horns, real excited to get, could not wait to see , and then to find broken drills, leaky holes, or saw cuts far to deep. Good Luck
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Beautiful work.
Very, very nice!
JGW006
32 Cal
Very very nice. Thank you!
powder horn | eBay this is on E-vil bay now. Looks to be a nice horn to scrimshaw upon. Price is decent too. Blank would be 25$ plus if found at a show, and you would have many hours to procure it to it's form now. People might even deal the price down.... Note the darken color over the white, would not doubt if stained,
JGW006
32 Cal
Thank you. That is a nice horn! I’m going to have to watch that one.
JGW
JGW
Beautiful horn. Very nice
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