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Offline TN Longhunter

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See your bands and raise you to five.
« on: February 23, 2022, 06:34:27 PM »
Always enjoy posts of others work. There have been several lately on horns and stating the number of bands in the subject line. Thought I’d pull a couple out and show. The aged horn has four bands, two piece antler tip, mulberry base plug and a Bill Wright quilled strap. A large horn at 16” around the curve.

The second horn had five bands (why? Because I could), two piece antler tip and a Eastern Red Cedar base plug (again, because I can, plus it grows everywhere here). It is a slim horn but is 17” around the curve.

Neither horn is modeled after any historic example. Just a test and training experience to see what I could do. For those that are making horns, keep posting and showing them here. We all learn from the examples shown.

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Offline hawkeye

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Re: See your bands and raise you to five.
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2022, 06:48:59 PM »
WOW, great looking stuff you got

Thx for sharing
Hawkeye

Offline Cades Cove Fiddler

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Re: See your bands and raise you to five.
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2022, 07:27:31 PM »
 ;) ;).. nice horns, Don,.. I especially like the yellow one,.. looks like 200 years of patina,.. !!! ... did you use onion skins to dye to that color,..? .. Thanx,... CCF 

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Re: See your bands and raise you to five.
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2022, 08:03:55 PM »
;) ;). ... did you use onion skins to dye to that color,..? .. Thanx,... CCF

Process of yellow and brown Rite Dye, then rubbing with Feber's leather dye.  The Rite didn't give me the color I wanted so when to work with the leather dye to accent and knock down the color a little
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Re: See your bands and raise you to five.
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2022, 08:28:36 PM »
 Good looking horns, nice work.

   Tim C.

Offline Cory Joe Stewart

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Re: See your bands and raise you to five.
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2022, 08:32:51 PM »
Ok, new competition, how many bands can you get on one horn!! Annnnndddd GO!

Great work

Cory Joe

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Re: See your bands and raise you to five.
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2022, 08:22:40 PM »
Nice.
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