Banded Horn

[Tim Crosby]

 This one is about 12" around the outside curve, the base is Dogwood, it is hollowed out and a groove is cut in it for the horn to fit inside, it is held in with four steel pins at it's widest it is about 2 1/4"s. The bands are pinned on with two steel pins each. The antler tip has two pins holding it on.
 The base had a couple of worm holes in it and I thought I wasn't going to be able to use it but I filled them with pewter and it came out pretty good. You can see the repairs in the unfinished base and then after the repair in the other two.
 I am going to split this up into two posts.
 
 Tim C.

[Tim Crosby]

 This shows the second patch and how they turned out.

 Tim C.

[Mark Elliott]

Tim,

Why did you fill the worm holes instead of discarding the piece?   Had you seen that repair on an original horn?

Mark E.

[Dave B]

Tim,
Nice work on the horn. I took down a dog wood and it had purple sections in it saved some of the wood for some sort of project. I like your bands, are they glued or pinned in place? The pins you used in the tip do they go into blind holes or do you put a steel rod in the hole and tap them to the rod?

[Tim Crosby]

Tim,

Why did you fill the worm holes instead of discarding the piece?   Had you seen that repair on an original horn?

Mark E.

  I have never seen one patched like this, just thought I would give it a try, it was a nice piece of wood other than the holes.

 Tim C.

[Tim Crosby]

Tim,
Nice work on the horn. I took down a dog wood and it had purple sections in it saved some of the wood for some sort of project. I like your bands, are they glued or pinned in place? The pins you used in the tip do they go into blind holes or do you put a steel rod in the hole and tap them to the rod?

 The bands are pinned on and the tip pins go into blind holes that are parallel to the hole in the tip.

 Tim C. 

[Jefferson58]

Nice looking horn, Tim. I like everything about it, including the repairs. Good idea, and well-done.

The five bands are great. Really sets off that bee hive plug well. The tip is very nice too.

Thanks for showing it.

Jeff
 

[G. Elsenbeck]

Tim, I like the horn with all the bands.  Great job as usual and the beehive plug with the repair fits the theme perfectly.  Thanks for sharing Tim.

Gary