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Offline 120RIR

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Recommendations - Best for Northampton, Lehigh, Bucks Horn?
« on: August 31, 2020, 04:10:30 AM »
I'm looking for some recommendations for someone to carve and decorate a contemporary horn.  I'm looking for something characteristic of the Northampton/Lehigh/Bucks/Berks region, ca. 1750-1760ish, Germanic decorative influence, folksy but also very well done.  Who comes to mind that has the skills but also an eye for a convincing artistic interpretation of the region and period?

Offline smallpatch

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Re: Recommendations - Best for Northampton, Lehigh, Bucks Horn?
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2020, 04:20:15 AM »
Look at Art DeCamps website.
I have a nice Lehigh that I got from him a couple of years ago.
He makes REALLY nice horns.

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Offline Marcruger

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Re: Recommendations - Best for Northampton, Lehigh, Bucks Horn?
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2020, 09:41:44 PM »
Art is really amazing.  Likewise, Ron Hess (GA_Turner) does some beautiful engraving work.  Here is an copy of a Revolutionary War NC Artilleryman's horn.  God Bless,   Marc





Offline Eric Kettenburg

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Re: Recommendations - Best for Northampton, Lehigh, Bucks Horn?
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2020, 10:16:41 PM »
For PA screw tips and "commercial" horns, Roland Cadle or Art DeCamp are the go to guys.  I'm no screw tip or commercial horn expert, though, so I don't know just how early they can be pushed.  For F/I era work, I've been quite taken with anything I've ever seen from John Proud since I first met him up at Ticonderoga in the late 1990s.  His work is as good as it gets.
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