wood burnner leather

[brubincam]

when I was a kid I did some leather work by useing a wood burner to put pictures on leather---did they do this in the old days?---also can it be done on horns?---in other words would it be P.C.--- :hmm: :hmm: :hmm:

 

[jethro224]

I don't know if it would be PC but, if you do it on a horn, you better do it outside. Remember, horn is made out of the same stuff as hair. It's gonna stink! :barf:

 

[brubincam]

----I boiled horns in the house already---does stink---

 

[paulvallandigham]

Rubicam: MY former wife used a wood burning tool on goards and that is bad enough. It takes a delicate touch, but you don't get past the smell.

As to whether it was done, historically, I am sure that sometime, around some camp fire, a cowboy took a hot coal, or nail, and used it to burn his name or initials into his horn. Branding irons were used not only on steers, and cows, but also on logs in the logging camps, to identify the source of the log at the mills downstream.

 

[omarick1948]

There are a few examples of powder horns being marked or decorated by hot nails or other tools....I think there are some examples either in Madison Grant's book, THE KENTUCKY RIFE HUNTING POUCH and/or in AMERICAN ENGRAVED POWDER HORNS book......Usually just "Dots" and border decoration.

Rick