new horn

[ladysmithtrading]

Mike, check out your local auto parts stores or maybe ace hardware?

 

[hoochiepapa]

Got a Ace Hardware just a mile away! :thumbsup:

 

[hawkthrower]

Mike, looks like you have a great start there. Just keep going slow and listen to the horn. Sometimes I sit around just holding on to it and looking at from different angles until I figure out where it wants to go.
Makes for a more harmonious outcome :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Ron

 

[hoochiepapa]

Thanks, Ron! It's been a good break from the rifle and engraving. I don't want to file down the lighter part much more, then the black will show more. I got one of those lights at Ace, we'll see how it works.
Nice to see you posting.

 

[hawkthrower]

Yeah Mike, I got a few days at the house :surrender: :surrender:
Gotta get my honey do list shaved down a might :shocked2:
I understand the break from deal, I need to be out in the shop right now working on that smoothbore for someone in PA. He's gonna think I have quit on him if I don't get it off the bench pretty soon.

Ron

 

[gus13]

oh like he doesn't already??!! :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :wink:
actually I took quite a long break from the shop myself, my post here was the first two I've made or even gotten close to finished in almost a month!
Mike, its coming along well, though I am curious about the lip? that looks from the pics to be quite high? nothing wrong with it, just curious as your going in a little bit different direction than expected since you started. ...call it asking for perspective... keep up the good work, and keep us posted! :thumbsup:

 

[hoochiepapa]

I had to make the lobe that big because there was a large tear that deep into the horn. I wasn't sure how to fix it, so I made the lobe large. I will pare it down a bunch as I move along. Sort of a small horn for that, but I'm learning.

 

[BillinOregon]

Mike: I love your design. I'll make a lobed horn someday myself. Man, you are a productive craftsman!

 

[hoochiepapa]

I don't know about that! But thanks anyway!

 

[hoochiepapa]

Beav, the light doesn't work on the black part, and it goes almost all the way to the large opening. But I needed one of those lights anyway, Thanks!!

 

[gus13]

Mike,
the Black on a horn can be a bit of a pain because of that very reason. I've gone through on Black horns more than anything!
That said just be careful,and be sure to look at the tip thickness Vs. Base thickness. Then its kind of a guesstimate how thin you can get it from there!

 

[hoochiepapa]

Whatcha think? Southwest maybe? Lots of work still left to do, the traiangles are really rough, and I need to do lots of sanding.

 

[gus13]

coming along there Mike. another way to tell the thickness is the sound it makes when you tap on it. goes from a tick tick to a tock tock! :hatsoff:

 

[hawkthrower]

Mike its starting to look real good.
I would be more inclined to use scrappers on it rather than sanding, but that is just my way. It does seem to go faster and makes for a lot less sanding dust. You, being the woodworker that you are, know all about scraping so it should be pretty simple to get started.

Ron

 

[hoochiepapa]

But my recycling wife won't let me break any bottles!! :rotf: :rotf:

 

[hoochiepapa]

:nono: Now she says I can't even have any broken glass!!

 

[hoochiepapa]

Pretty much finished. I'm going to braid a strap or cut one from leather now.

 

[gus13]

Wow! Mike, that came out lookin' pretty good! :thumbsup:

 

[hoochiepapa]

Thanks, Gus, coming from you, that's quite a compliment. I made wooden pegs to hold the base, made the staples out of baling wire hammered to look like a staple, the stopper is a piece of cherry, and the base is pine. Stained with Feibing's Dark brown. I didn't polish the horn like some of you guys do, it's dull like me :grin: . Just used a piece of 0000 steel wool. I still have to secure the stopper with twine, and make a strap.

 

[lonehunter]

Looks good Mike! :thumbsup: