I call this horn my problem child.
It's a really pretty white horn so it's a beautiful canvas for me but there was very little mass in the tip and after I cut the tip off and drilled the spout hole I made a futile attempt to make an applied tip horn. I put it on the shelf for a few years...
I fixed the problem I had created while trying to make an applied tip horn; and my turning skills have improved a little bit (although they pale in comparison to those of a whole bunch of you guys.) Surprise! I was able to finally turn an antler collar which mated perfectly with a tip I had turned out of horn. It's pinned on with ivory pins I made.
On the other end, I turned a small finial out of black horn and did some silverwire inlay on the maple butt plug. It's heat fit to the horn, which made an airtight seal but I finished it with beeswax just in case.
Like I said, there was very little mass in the end of the horn so since I couldn't engrail it, I did some very simple low relief instead. I'd like the neck a little darker. I wanted to dye it a darker color but since the relief was so low I couldn't afford to sand away any dye which would get on the the white. I ended up using potassium permanganate to darken it. (I'm thinking of trying to darken it further with some black shoe polish...your thoughts?)
Next it's out to the engraving studio. I still haven't decided what I'm going to put on it yet but I have a few ideas.
Oh yeah, 11" at the outside curve 2.75" diameter at the base.
As always , your critiques, thoughts, ideas and comments are most welcome.
