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General discussion => Contemporary Accoutrements => Topic started by: smallpatch on January 20, 2020, 10:57:50 PM

Title: Another bison horn question
Post by: smallpatch on January 20, 2020, 10:57:50 PM

Working on a simple priming horn.  Have sanded to 600 grit, and it's still not anywhere close to shiny.
How do you get them glossy?

Title: Re: Another bison horn question
Post by: kudu on January 20, 2020, 11:46:12 PM

Buff them with buffing wheel and Rouge.

Title: Re: Another bison horn question
Post by: Jim Spray on January 21, 2020, 12:30:32 AM

I finish with 800 to 1000 depending on the horn. Buff but be careful you can burn it.

Jim

Title: Re: Another bison horn question
Post by: Tim Crosby on January 21, 2020, 02:05:58 AM

 How GOLSSY do you want it? I am not a fan of see your face in your horn. Finish sand it with 320 hit it with 0000 put some shoe polish/wax on it and buff it with a shoe brush, then a rag.

  Tim

Title: Re: Another bison horn question
Post by: Clark Badgett on January 21, 2020, 02:13:33 AM

On the only horn I completed so far, I put a coat of shellac on it. Gave it a nice color and made it shine.

Title: Re: Another bison horn question
Post by: D. Taylor Sapergia on January 21, 2020, 03:51:40 AM

Rub it down with Brasso, and polish with a soft cloth.  Then wax with a good floor wax.

Title: Re: Another bison horn question
Post by: smallpatch on January 21, 2020, 07:29:30 AM

Thanks guys.  It's pretty smoothed out, just grayish. Like a haze.
Maybe I'll try the shoe polish, or floor wax trick.