Southern Horn

[Harddog]

This is a large southern horn that I just finished up today. The horn is about 90% black in color with some oxblood color stripes toward the butt. It is approximately 18 inches long on the outside curve and 3-1/4 inches in diameter at the butt. Strap attachment is via a metal staple in the front of the horn and another metal staple in the hollowed out walnut butt plug. The deer antler spout is lathe turned, applied and pinned. The spout plug is an old rosewood fiddle peg. The 3/4 inch veg tanned leather strap is 48 inches long on the middle adjustment hole and I have allowed for 4 inches of adjustment either way by means of a vintage English harness buckle.

Randy Hedden

Who is off to start scrimshawing a couple of F&I style horns.

 

[GreyWhiskers]

Very nice, Dog. Beautiful horn and great pics. :thumbsup: I'd be afraid of loosing the plug though. GW

 

[Harddog]

Very nice, Dog. Beautiful horn and great pics. :thumbsup: I'd be afraid of loosing the plug though. GW

Grey Wiskers,

Thanks for the good words.

All the spouts and spout plugs on my horns are made with matching tapers. When you put the spout plug in you do it with a clockwise twist and push. When you take the plug out you pull and turn it counter clockwise. When you make a spout and plug with tapers you have to leave the plug stick out a little because as it is used it will sink a little farther into the spout. Plugs made like this are tight and waterproof and if the wooden plug gets wet it doesn't swell up and become fast in the spout like straight spout plugs. You can always pull a tapered plug out even if it gets swollen from moisture.

If someone were worried about the plug becoming lost they can always tie a string around the plug and tie the other end of the string around one of the turns of the spout.

Randy Hedden

 

[Vairochana]

Niiiiiiiiiiiiice :bow:
was the horn naturally that colour?
If so how would I get one?

Cheers

 

[shmrck1]

If someone were worried about the plug becoming lost they can always tie a string around the plug and tie the other end of the string around one of the turns of the spout./quote]
Harddog,
I use a leather thong from the plug
to the shoulder starp. But that is me!
snake-eyes :hmm:

 

[bwhoffman]

...Outstanding! :thumbsup:

The hints of red are very eye catching.
You did well!

Brett

 

[Goldhunter]

I shouldn't have said "keep em coming" on your rum horn thread, you took my advice! :rotf:

Very nice, I love the dark colored horns. I just finished one that had similiar dark color, I couldn't not make one out of it. Not nearly as very fancy (read that as professional) looking as yours. I like your work. Have you tried a Southern Banded horn yet?

 

[Harddog]

Niiiiiiiiiiiiice :bow:
was the horn naturally that colour?
If so how would I get one?

Cheers

this particular horn was about 90% black with some white streaks in it. I knew I couldn't make the horn all black so I settled for making the streaks an oxblood color. I really like the way it turned out.

This horn is just a longhorn horn that happened to not have a lot of curve so I made a southern horn out of it.

Randy Heden

 

[Harddog]

Have you tried a Southern Banded horn yet?

I have made several southern banded horns over the years and am actually working on one now. It is only 12-13 inches long, but will have the long beehive butt plug and an applied spout which will make it another 3 or so inches longer. Might even make it a screw tip, but I haven't got that far yet. I will post some pictures when I get it finished, but it might be a while because I tend to have three or four horns going at once or two horns and a couple of bags or even a couple of rifles in the mix. The problem with making banded horns is that when making a banded horn you might have to cut up two additional horns just to get appropriate bands for the horn you are working on.

Randy Hedden

 

[renovato]

That horn came out great. I like the gentle curve to it. Your turnings are great too. Thanks for the pics.

 

[Bob J]

Harddog- That is "way cool"! ! ! :hatsoff:

 

[hawkeye1755]

Harddog , what a masterpiece. :bow: :bow:
How much time did you spend on making such a beautiful horn?
:hatsoff:

 

[wetpowder]

Awesome beautiful work. :bow:
A horn anyone would be proud to wear :hatsoff:

 

[Harddog]

Harddog , what a masterpiece. :bow: :bow:
How much time did you spend on making such a beautiful horn?
:hatsoff:

Undertaker,

I really don't know how much time I spent on this horn because I like to work on two or three different projects at a time. I would guess, from start to finish, I have somewhere between 20 and 25 hours into this horn.

Randy Hedden

 

[Harddog]

Thanks everyone for the kind words about my horn. Nothing makes a craftsman want to do more than a few kind words from those who appreciate his work.

Thanks again,

Randy Hedden