Powder Horn photos

[Capnball]

Old one. Made it for a friends retirement. Map is his area of the Adirondacks.
The base was made from a piece of apple from the wood pile.

When people give you crap about the flip flopped compass rose just tell them, "That's looking south from Canada"

 

[Capnball]

Southern banded.........

That threaded cap is beautiful.

 

[Kev308]

The horns here a real works of art!!
this is mine I built it a long time ago, with the help of the Sibley book. The artwork comes from a couple different horns that were in the museum at Ft. Ticonderoga

 

[Capnball]

The horns here a real works of art!!
this is mine I built it a long time ago, with the help of the Sibley book. The artwork comes from a couple different horns that were in the museum at Ft. TiconderogaView attachment 47404View attachment 47405View attachment 47406

Looks great. I'm hoping to put something together over the winter.

 

[Eutycus]

Fuctional and serviceable but that's about it.

 

[Eutycus]

 

[tom mesa]

Here are a few of my feeble attempts at making a powder horn.

 

[Capnball]

Here are a few of my feeble attempts at making a powder horn.

Nothing wrong with any of that. Love that B&W end cap design

 

[tom mesa]

Nothing wrong with any of that. Love that B&W end cap design

Thanks, I copied a design attributed to St Louis.

 

[Capnball]

Thanks, I copied a design attributed to St Louis.

I'm doing research right now, lol. I wouldn't be surprised to see some of these details on a horn I make somewhere down the road.
Neil

 

[Ames]

Thanks, I copied a design attributed to St Louis.

I've seen that horn.

 

[Robby]

Not exactly a 'horn', though some people call them horns.

Robby

 

[olfuzzy]

Question for you folks that make the horns with maps scrimshawed on them. Where did you come up with the maps to duplicate ?

 

[troy2000]

This is my first and only horn so far. I did it after reading the How-To book by the Sibleys, which I strongly recommend. I put my ancestor's name and the year 1753 on one side, and "Of All The Leffons Ye Muft Recall, Firft the Powder, Then the Ball" on the other. I don't know where I read that powder horn inscription, but it comes in handy when your friends "dry ball" a load during a shooting match.

I of course, being a consummate professional at anything I turn my hand to, have absolutely never dry-balled a gun. Not this week, anyway...

 

[troy2000]

The good ol' Tin Teepee. I had to finally get one so my wife would go to the rendezvous with me. She's not much of a "tenter."

Unfortunately, my wife could never understand why anyone would ever want to sleep in the middle of the desert, when there are perfectly good hotels in town.

 

[troy2000]

Bison horn with a mesquite base.

Nice.... and that looks like an interesting buttstock behind it, too.

 

[Kev308]

Question for you folks that make the horns with maps scrimshawed on them. Where did you come up with the maps to duplicate ?

Fort Ticonderoga museum. Sketch pad amd camera
If you can find past issues of Muzzleblast magazine they used to run some great photos of horn too.

 

[toot]

My first horn made in 1968 when I was 17 years old. Butt cap made from a scrap of curly maple i swiped from my dad's shop. The black and white colored one I made recently for my brother. The bison horn pair are my most recent. None are anything special but they get the job done.View attachment 47271View attachment 47272View attachment 47273View attachment 47271

they are just out standing!!

 

[toot]

Made this for Dad, in his last year. He was from Clearfield Co. Pennsylvania, on the West Branch of the Susquehanna. I was born in Pittsburgh. Old family stories about our Clan's not so nice relations with the original inhabitants of Penn's Woods. And interactions with Geo III's troops.


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it is museum quality!

 

[toot]

I have made a few over the years. I do not have the talent of a lot of these guys but this "Join or Die" one turned out ok. I reversed the picture to better go with the horn as I'm a southpaw shooter. The second one I bought from someone and as it was somewhat 'period crude' [ and I do not mean that in a bad way,I like the horn] I braided a hemp cord for it and scrimmed an exact copy of an Indian [ with a big head] in a canoeView attachment 47325View attachment 47324 that my Dad drew for me when I was a little boy over 60 years ago onto it.

that certainly looks too be primitive, KUDDOS, to you.