Powderhorn bungs

[Woodyrock]

Being too cheap to actually buy a violin peg for a powderhorn bung, I gathered up some shop scrap, and turned a few. Since, I had to make a tapering tool, I went ahead, and turned bungs for two hours.All are tapered 1:30 to match my tapered reamer, and polished with a mix of turps, beeswax, and pitch (very traditional, and period correct).
Woody

 

[George T.]

That should hold you a while! :wink:

Geo. T.

 

[ohio ramrod]

Gee, if you use the groove to tie the plug onto the horn with a short piece of sinew you won't drop them and need so many. :rotf:

 

[Rifleman1776]

Those are neat and look like fun to make.
BTW, my philosophy is there is no such thing as "scrap wood". :hatsoff:

 

[Beerd2]

BTW, my philosophy is there is no such thing as "scrap wood". :hatsoff:

or scrap iron.

 

[Mad Irish Jack]

There is no word such as :nono: "scrape" in the world of MLing, everything has a use in some way, just as 200 +/- years ago. But as pointed out in other post; Best not to be married when collecting all that non-scrape. LOL