Powder horn help!!!

[Loja man]

Thats one of mine.

I thought it was yours but I couldn’t remember you name off the top of my head! That’s right! You had quite a few posted on thread about “show us your powder horn” or something like that. You make wonderful pieces!

 

[Loja man]

So is thier a norm for the horn wall thickness at the spout? In pics I’ve seen it looks like about 1/8. Is this right?

 

[Loja man]

Well here’s where we’re at. Waiting on some feedback from my older brother on my nephews horn. Waiting to borrow some chisels from my buddy to finish some details on my son‘s before dying the tip. My sons is the lobed horn.

 

[Loja man]

It may not be traditional but I think it’s so cool! My son Ethan has always loved owls. So we asked a good friend who does wood carvings to help us out on the horn spout plug! This is the result!

 

[PathfinderNC]

That’s a really cute carved owls. Giving your horn a personal touch is what’s great about these things. Your creating art, actually Folk Art, and traditional or knot it’s perfect

 

[Loja man]

That’s a really cute carved owls. Giving your horn a personal touch is what’s great about these things. Your creating art, actually Folk Art, and traditional or knot it’s perfect

Thanks Pathfinder! It was a fun idea and my friend executed it well!

 

[Gamechaser]

plain jane horn I finished this spring. Bought my insert from t.o.w

 

[Loja man]

Well we finished horn number one! Well almost!! I need to add some tongue oil to the plug and owl!

 

[PathfinderNC]

Great job!!!

 

[Loja man]

Great job!!!

Thanks Pathfinder!! He seems pleased!! He wanted it filled with powder as soon as we got the strap on!!! I may need to forge him a couple hooks! That way he can hang his recently finished stick bow on the wall as well as his horn!

 

[JohnL]

Well we finished horn number one! Well almost!! I need to add some tongue oil to the plug and owl!

I like it! It’s your art!!

 

[Loja man]

I like it! It’s your art!!

Thanks John L! It was a fun project!

 

[JohnL]

Thanks John L! It was a fun project!

Time to start planning the next one!!

 

[Loja man]

Time to start planning the next one!!

I sure am!! I have my nephews horn to finish. Still waiting on feedback from my brother. My oldest sons to start and finish. Then I may eventually have time to make mine!!

 

[AZbpBurner]

When I was a kid I made a simple horn. In storage for many years, some kind of flour beetle larva or pest ate a bunch of small craters into the surface. "One of These Days" I'll get around to filling them and hope it doesn't look too bad, but meanwhile I needed other horns for use with several rifles. I just didn't either have the time or inclination to make anything as pretty or fancy as many of the beautiful work-of-art horns many of you have built, but I wanted the horns ...NOW.
My solution was to buy a couple of those really cheap horns from Amazon (about $10 each). They already had the end plug fitted, but they looked like cheap ¢rap. I reshaped the plugs and installed a brass filler end bushing and base plug into the wooden plug, and a fiddle peg stopper. They aren't particularly pretty, but they hold powder.

 

[Loja man]

Here’s where I’m at on my nephews horn. Trying to decide wether I dye the lower portion gray or leave natural. It still needs some filing, chisel work and scraping.

 

[Gamechaser]

Don't know how you guys make them look so doggone elegant

 

[Loja man]

Thanks Gamechaser! It’s a lot of fun!!

 

[JohnL]

Looking good! Dye it! Then scrimshaw his name on it! You’ve got this!!