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Offline Habu

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Since everyone is talking horns . . .
« on: August 05, 2011, 07:13:21 AM »
I've had two of these for years and never figured out what to do with them:



Too straight to make a powder horn like I like, too thin to do a fancy horn or cut up for rings.  Don't need a rum horn or salt horns.  Ideas?  The surface was a bit bug-chewed before I got them, but I don't see any holes. 

Jim
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Re: Since everyone is talking horns . . .
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2011, 07:48:43 AM »
Hmmm,

With a pewter drinking rim it would make a great Mead flagon!

Wassail!

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Re: Since everyone is talking horns . . .
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2011, 08:39:28 AM »
Quote from: Albert Rasch on August 05, 2011, 07:48:43 AM
Hmmm,
 
With a pewter drinking rim it would make a great Mead flagon!

Wassail
   Do what to who's cow :o.......is that legal?



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Re: Since everyone is talking horns . . .
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2011, 07:33:59 PM »
make some salt, rum horns, etc, for shoot prizes, trade, sale?????      mark
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Re: Since everyone is talking horns . . .
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2011, 05:25:16 AM »
What is a mead flagon? I keep bees and make mead and was just figuring on making a rum horn to carry it in, but is there a horn container for mead that is different from a rum horn?
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Re: Since everyone is talking horns . . .
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2011, 06:12:18 AM »
James,

Think Viking drinking horn.

I also keep bees. Well I kept them when I was home, I check on the girls when I go home on R&R. Best I can do...

When I get back permanently I'll build them back up and collect honey again. Always wanted to make mead, that will also be another project!

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Offline Habu

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Re: Since everyone is talking horns . . .
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2011, 08:40:10 AM »
I just checked the volume of these horns: just over a quart.  I think I'll pass on ever drinking that much mead in one setting! 

I like the straight horn with the wood end shown by Daniel Russell.  I'll have to check thickness--I'm not sure I can get turned sections of any length, but they could be an interesting project.  If I cut the horns down to 10"-1', they might make decent flat horns.
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Re: Since everyone is talking horns . . .
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2011, 11:39:15 PM »
 How deep is the cavity in that horn? You may get some good tip material if you are going to cut them for horns with plugs at both ends.  

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Offline Habu

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Re: Since everyone is talking horns . . .
« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2011, 12:04:04 PM »
Tim, that's the cussedness of the two horns--walls are thin up to the tips.  I just dropped a Maglite Solitaire down one; there was light glowing through to about 1.5" from the end. 

Might make some nice powder measures though, straight enough to turn on the lathe w/o issues . . .  thanks for the idea!

Jim
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