Latest horn

[Kary]

here’s my latest, I didn’t do any engrailing this one, I may attempt it on the next.
Thanks and comments welcome!

[Mike from OK]

I really like that. You did a wonderful job. We all appreciate the more ornate designs. But a well executed piece of simpler design is often just as pleasing.

Mike

[rollingb]

I like the color,.... what did you use to get it?

Thanks,
rollingb

[Kary]

Thanks for the compliment mike, rollingb, I coated the whole horn, base plug and all with brown fieblings leather dye. I used my heat gun to attempt to set the dye. Then I carded it back. After heating the dye on the base plug, I buffed it back with some 0000 steel wool and repeated, when I got the tint I desired, I let it dry and polished it with a coarse rag. Then applied some mink oil and drilled the holes for the staple. For some reason I really like the simple utilitarian horns and that’s what I make. I’ve made some really fancy ones... but I like the simple ones that the common, every day folk would have used. Thanks again for the comments!

[Kary]

Here’s one I made for my dad for Father’s Day, using the same process except I didn’t use heat in  the process. It’s not super fancy but I did engrail it.

[Brokennock]

Really like the finish and the color. Very nicely done.

[JohnnyFM]

Very nicely done. Warmth of color and the simple elegance of your throat shaping give the horn soul.

[Lzymtlsmth]

Nice job, it looks right.

[trentOH]

That horn looks like it will swallow most of a pound of powder. When I'm shooting my Bess, I like like lots of powder. Do you have    a photo of the horn before it was transformed?

[Tim Crosby]

 Good looking horn.

  Tim C.

[Kary]

Thanks again for all the kind comments, Trent I don’t have a photo before it was transformed, however I have its twin... I’ll take a photo of it sometime today when I get a chance.

[Marcruger]

That is a very handsome horn. Nicely done. God Bless, Marc

[Clark Badgett]

I really like the looks of that horn. There is a certain beauty to plain horns.

[Top Jaw]

 I think the one thing that has the biggest impact on how a horn looks is how much time and effort a person spends on working the tip down to proper proportions. You did a nice job on the tip of this horn. And it looks better Because of that.  Keep up the good work.

[Yung_flint]

That is a really, really beautiful horn. As others have said the color is really cool.

[Kary]

Here is its twin, I’ll be working it soon enough. Thanks again for all the kind comments, it means an awful lot knowing this forum houses some of the finest craftsmen I’ve ever seen.