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General discussion => Contemporary Accoutrements => Topic started by: 120RIR on August 31, 2020, 04:10:30 AM

Title: Recommendations - Best for Northampton, Lehigh, Bucks Horn?
Post by: 120RIR on August 31, 2020, 04:10:30 AM

I'm looking for some recommendations for someone to carve and decorate a contemporary horn.  I'm looking for something characteristic of the Northampton/Lehigh/Bucks/Berks region, ca. 1750-1760ish, Germanic decorative influence, folksy but also very well done.  Who comes to mind that has the skills but also an eye for a convincing artistic interpretation of the region and period?

Title: Re: Recommendations - Best for Northampton, Lehigh, Bucks Horn?
Post by: smallpatch on August 31, 2020, 04:20:15 AM

Look at Art DeCamps website.
I have a nice Lehigh that I got from him a couple of years ago.
He makes REALLY nice horns.
(https://i.ibb.co/jZDVN8C/A9-C1887-F-2-A69-4-EE4-9338-363-F13-F57-B23.jpg) (https://ibb.co/x86mk2n)

Title: Re: Recommendations - Best for Northampton, Lehigh, Bucks Horn?
Post by: Marcruger on August 31, 2020, 09:41:44 PM

Art is really amazing.  Likewise, Ron Hess (GA_Turner) does some beautiful engraving work.  Here is an copy of a Revolutionary War NC Artilleryman's horn.  God Bless,   Marc

(https://i.ibb.co/Bz2cpsX/Hess-NC-Artillery-Horn-1000162.jpg) (https://ibb.co/0Dym7Jg)

(https://i.ibb.co/JRNR3N1/Hess-NC-Artillery-Horn-1000179.jpg) (https://ibb.co/bgxgbx0)

Title: Re: Recommendations - Best for Northampton, Lehigh, Bucks Horn?
Post by: Eric Kettenburg on August 31, 2020, 10:16:41 PM

For PA screw tips and "commercial" horns, Roland Cadle or Art DeCamp are the go to guys.  I'm no screw tip or commercial horn expert, though, so I don't know just how early they can be pushed.  For F/I era work, I've been quite taken with anything I've ever seen from John Proud since I first met him up at Ticonderoga in the late 1990s.  His work is as good as it gets.