Pocket Horn

[davec2]

Work has been extremely busy for the last several months, so I have not had the time to work some of my more involved projects in ernest.  However, I do have time for some of the little fill in work.  I bought a very small, raw horn with a slight twist several years ago and have had it on my bench ever since.  I was going to cut it down to make a salt or priming horn, but then decided to leave it as big as it was and just make a day or pocket horn out of it.  The base plug is turned from ebony and is held in place with citrus thorns.  The cascabel is threaded in for ease in filling.  The spout plug is turned from Lignum Vitae and has my mark, struck in brass, pinned to one of the side facets.  A little rustic scrimshaw work the next evening and the tiny horn was complete.  Now, if I can only get away from work long enough to take a woods walk and use the darn thing!

 

[DOUBLEDEUCE 1]

Beautiful!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

[Short Arm]

Nice job :thumbsup:

 

[omarick1948]

Looks good Dave! :thumbsup:

Rick

 

[BrownBear]

Wow! :shocked2:

I'm a sincere fan of pocket horns, but none of my creations cross the line from "functional" to art. You left the line so far behind, it's amazing.

If your hands are the same size as mine, that looks like it will hold 800-1000 grains. Perfect.

 

[lonehunter]

Very nice Dave :thumbsup:

 

[Sunkmanitu Tanka]

That is just Awesome!

 

[wattlebuster]

:shocked2: Wow

 

[MSW]

tremendous looking work!

:hatsoff:

 

[Coot]

Very nice! :thumbsup:

 

[ZUG]

Dave, you got to retire and get out of the "rat race" so you can play with your craft :grin: . As always you do fantastic work. I retired in June and I'm just starting to clean up my shop so I can get back to doing some rifle & knife work :v .

 

[davec2]

Thank you all for the kind words. Zug, congratulations on "getting" retired !!!! If the jerks in Washington keep up with the idiotic stuff they have a penchant for doing, I won't be able to retire for another.......let me see.........137 years!

Thanks to all.

dave c

 

[Wes/Tex]

Love the color and craftsmanship! What did you use for color...and PLEASE don't tell me it's natural coloring, I can never find any horn with such nice yellowing!

 

[davec2]

Wes,

No the coloring is not natural. The spout is done with iron nitrate (made with nitric acid and iron) and then heated with a hot air gun. This yellows it a little but does not really darken it. Then I give it a brushing with gallic acid dissolved in water. Turns the horn black immediately (iron and gallic acid react to make a black stain...old ink formula). The rest of the horn was also done with the iron nitrate solution and heat as well. However, it was not quite yellow enough so I did give it a quick dip in very warm (just off a boil) yellow and orange RIT dye (just a pinch of each in a glass of warm water.)

Hope that helps.

dave C

 

[Wes/Tex]

Excellent job, thanks. Was going to have to cry if the answer was the horn was naturally that nice soft yellow color. :thumbsup:

 

[Aran]

Wow, incredible work !
Keep making more of these beauties.
:thumbsup: :hatsoff: