This Old Horn

[Mark Elliott]

Attached are photos of a horn I made a number of years ago and decided to rework.    I took some rings out of the throat and made it simpler and I scraped off the old schrimshaw and added new.   I had fun doing the schrimshaw and like how it turned out.   What do the rest of you professionals think?   I know it is not strictly traditional, but what else do you expect from me?

[Shreckmeister]

I think its folky and cool. Good color too. Not a fan of tuning peg stoppers. I like the thin ones but that's personal pref and doesn't matter

[The Original Griz]

Very nice looking horn. I really like the spout end, very fine work... Looks like a good old horn.

[Tim Crosby]

 The architecture looks very good and I like the layout. I am no carver but from what I’ve seen it fits right in, especially for a horn that may have been through many hands in 200 years or so. I am with Rob when it comes to Violin pegs for stoppers.

   Tim C.

[Mark Elliott]

I can make another stopper.  That is the only tuning peg stopper I ever made.   I usually turn something to go with the horn.    What do you guys normally do about stoppers?

[EC121]

I like the stoppers to be fastened to the horn or the strap.  You can pull the stopper and let it hang while pouring.  The other way is to bite it and hold on until done.  Maybe drill a hole in the peg and fasten it.  Another way to look at it is that the folk style engraving could be balanced by a  folk style plug.  Either way it is a nicely done  horn. 

[David R. Pennington]

Here are some of my spouts and some in various stages of completion. I have a flaw in my character. I cannot sit still without my hands being occupied with something productive. When we take a vacation to the beach I justify my idle time sitting on the beech by whittling stoppers.

[Elnathan]

I like the stoppers to be fastened to the horn or the strap.  You can pull the stopper and let it hang while pouring.  The other way is to bite it and hold on until done.  

A third way: I pull the plug by grabbing it between my first and second fingers, and just leave it there while I measure out powder. Neither teeth or nor strings required, and I never forget to replace it!


Mark, I like the fiddle-peg stopper just fine.

[Habu]

When I re-built this horn recently, I had to carve a new stopper.  This one is fairly typical of what I use for myself: a chunk of ramrod off-cut, carved to fit the spout then carved flat (like this one) or round and tapering back to the horn.