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DORNS HORN (Attention Doran, Do Not Open!!!)
Frozen Run:
Ok, good, now that we're safe from his prying eyes we can discuss the horn I'm making him. Maybe he'll take a peek, but I thought it would be interesting to do a live(+/-) powder horn montage on the creative process. It's easy to pat yourself on the back after the fact, but it's a whole lot different when you're in the heat of the battle and things aren't going your way. If things go wrong then I've got some slick ways of getting out of trouble, if things go really wrong then I will start begging people for help, anything past that and this whole thread is getting memory holed.
I'm basing this horn off of this really greasy original with an out of proportion faceted tip and an out of proportion faceted neck so I needed to pick out a horn from my box of dog chews that has a lot of meat on it...
perhaps I should have gotten greedier with the tip? A number of months ago I blew through the sides of probably my best 2 horns because I got greedy drilling the tip. Hard to say if this'll come back to bite me later on...
The tip had a very obnoxious delamination that went from the tip all the way to the neck I had to rasp through, fortunately I had the material to do so. The sharpie lines and duct tape are there to map out my indecisiveness. You have the golden mean, and an out of proportion line more inline with the original, and you have the limitations of the horn and somewhere in there is the correct answer.
Here's about where I call it for now. Hole drilled, roughed out somewhat, and base heated and shaping cone in. The base has a little bit of a kicked out and jaunty look that I like, probably not optimal for the horn, but neat so I'll see if that can be maintained later on when it gets to shaping the base plug. It has roughly the proportions and weight of a bowling pin so a colossal amount of material still needs to be removed prior to shaping any finer details.
Frozen Run:
I went down in my shop to review my previous night's work and discovered a couple of things I had overlooked originally.
Setback 1: The horn kind of wants to be a left hand carry.
Problem: Doran kind of wants a right hand carry horn.
Solution paths:
a. convince Doran he wants a left hand carry horn.
b. convince the horn it wants to be a right hand carry horn.
Setback 2: Large unsightly flat spot in thin area in body.
Problem: Cosmetic.
Solution paths:
a. apply heat, shape out with wood dowel.
b. rivet plate and engrave: act like it's no big deal when complimented.
Well, there's nothing really I can do about it now except charge forward and see how things unravel. Even without these preliminary issues, I'm still not entirely convinced this is a viable horn until I'm able to remove a lot more material from it.
Eric Kettenburg:
Might win a "most interesting thread title" award. ;D
Frozen Run:
addendum: By viable I mean not vulgar. The white whale of any horner.
Frozen Run:
INTERMISSION
So I exposed a tiny fissure that after doing some exploratory work on with a razor turned out to be a gigantic cavity that compromised the entire horn:
Great news! That just solved both of my issues. When life hands you lemons, ask it for a bag. Also, I learned what makes for a bad horn so this is a win all around. Undeterred I discarded the one horn and got to work tuning up a little colonial I've had on the back burner waiting to be finished...but...plot twist...that little horn ain't Dorns, that little horn is yours! Who can I mean? Will Doran ever get his horn? Will a horn even get made in this thread? Stay tuned to find out.
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