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General discussion => Contemporary Accoutrements => Topic started by: Bob Gerard on September 01, 2025, 05:49:33 AM
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I want to do a nice 100th Powder Horn. I chose a relatively large right side carry and making it a lobed one. I cut a disc from a flattened piece of horn and inlet it into the base plug, with a little engraving work.
For this horn I am envisioning a hunter scene made in a woodcut style, so my border bands and and frames will need to compatible in style, which I tried to do with the scrolls on the butt medallion. They will come next.
I hope it comes out well.
(https://i.ibb.co/HD8W2Lpv/IMG-6489.jpg) (https://ibb.co/7JmwzxNc)
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Very creative and original idea can't wait to see it finished!
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Congratulations on your 100th horn! I bet it’s going to be a beautiful one.
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Bob, As usual, that horn is going to be a work of art.
Doing horns as beautiful and striking as you do, the 100th is a true milestone. I shudder to think what #1,000 will look like.
Keep it up my friend,
John (Bigsmoke)
PS: I never kept count of the horns I produced, but I would imagine my #100 would have rolled off the workbench somewhere around March or April of 1984. But there is a huge difference between your horns and mine.
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Bob: there is no doubt this will be a fantastic horn. The style is one anyone would love to have. I hope whoever ends up with it carries it and it doesn't spend it's life on a display shelf.
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Thanks for your support and kind thoughts!
I got back to it yesterday and today, working on the upper and lower border bands. I often change my designs and here’s an example of a change made mid-stream. It seemed doing that scroll work around the lobe holes was just too much scrolling…
(https://i.ibb.co/WvWNcs3N/IMG-6545.jpg) (https://ibb.co/XxZfzV4f)
(https://i.ibb.co/Ndsyhrpp/IMG-6551.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Q3fKBknn)
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Amazing Bob I really like this one!
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I think I am about ready to work on the hunting scene(s). My idea is of a 17th century wood-cut type image. Not sure if it will be on two panels or just one wrap-around scene… 🤔
(https://i.ibb.co/8gtNRvR9/IMG-6559.jpg) (https://ibb.co/60Lrp9pF)
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It's a great looking horn anxiously awaiting the hunting scene Bob. I like the lobed horns.
george
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I have been pondering on a couple of lay-outs for the illustration on this horn; two bordered panels or try a cylinder image that wraps around the horn. I’ve never done the latter so it will be a first. It will be a hunting scene with a buck and the familiar hunting dog and trees and stuff. I think it will work. Here’s my final sketches of the layout. I will start with the Hunter first.
(https://i.ibb.co/NgVQLqWm/IMG-6569.jpg) (https://ibb.co/5XMt53sn)
(https://i.ibb.co/zW0W25bn/IMG-6570.jpg) (https://ibb.co/bj8jv3LW)
(https://i.ibb.co/jk7gZD3y/IMG-6571.jpg) (https://ibb.co/QvsrjMYP)
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A few more hours today. I have much of the Hunter finished , next the hound I think.
(https://i.ibb.co/N6qpMn04/IMG-6581.jpg) (https://ibb.co/HDyYjpcJ)
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Awesome beyond my imagination! Let the hound out Bob!
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Bob,
you've really nailed the hunter, waiting foe the hound and buck. It's going to be a masterpiece. Maybe needs to find a place in the Michigan woods. ;)
george
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Thanks for the encouraging words! I worked on the stag and the hound, with a bit of vegetation. Wore out my pen nib!
Some more work to do on the foreground and then next will be the background to pull it all together, though I haven’t yet decided on what it will be.
(https://i.ibb.co/nN8Bp0WZ/IMG-6592.jpg) (https://ibb.co/0RVK5Xw8)
(https://i.ibb.co/S7xbLXtg/IMG-6595.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Hp26JDty)
(https://i.ibb.co/SwDx3x5h/IMG-6594.jpg) (https://ibb.co/GQfJ5JnK)
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Almost finished 🙂
(https://i.ibb.co/PvrH4mdh/IMG-6644.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nNwJfgFc)
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I like it!