Making a powder horn

[jojo]

I know, I know, not a every day Bushcraft item these days, regrettably, but nevertheless a very traditional craft, working with wood, leather, horn, metal.

So, here are a few pictures of what I have done so far. I have rounded the end of the horn and flattened it. To achieve a nice round end, I made a soft wood, cone plug to round the horn with, and the careful use of a heat gun; I say careful because I didn't want to burn the horn itself. As it is, the plug got a bit singed!

It is a fairly small horn I am using, so, to give the horn a bit more storage space for the powder, I am decided to make a hollowed domed "butt plug", which will add a couple of inches in length to the horn. Overall it's going to be about 12" long.

I am keeping the horn on the cone until I have cleaned it up and fitted the butt plug, as I am not sure if the horn would revert to its original shape unsupported.


I finished the domed plug on the lather this afternoon. Here are some pictures of it.

Next step will be cutting the end off, drilling the pouring hole and scrapping the horn clean and reasonably smooth.

 

[IanM]

To really finish it off have a look at item '1233D Powder Horn Top' on page 84 of:

Henry Krank

Then it will be usable as a powder horn.

 

[British Red]

That's looking superb Joel! Really impressive thus far!

 

[GordonM]

Very nice. I wait, with eagerness, to see the finished horn. I enjoy shooting my muzzle loading rifles.

ATB,

Gordy

 

[jojo]

To really finish it off have a look at item '1233D Powder Horn Top' on page 84 of:

Henry Krank

Then it will be usable as a powder horn.

I'd love to see that, but for some reason I am getting a completely blank page...

 

[IanM]

Bring down the catalogue pages inside the web page (there are two sliders visible, one on the far right of the web page and one about an inch to the left of that)

Or Google "1233D Powder Horn Top"

 

[jojo]

Bring down the catalogue pages inside the web page (there are two sliders visible, one on the far right of the web page and one about an inch to the left of that)

Or Google "1233D Powder Horn Top"

Ahhh... Thanks IanM. This is a treaasure trove of good stuff! I'll go hang around there a while!

 

[lab72]

Thats a really nice job there.

 

[British Red]

Kranks are just historic gun porn

Desparately hoping they will get a nice No. 5 in soon!

 

[launditch1]

Very nice work JoJo.

 

[Samon]

Very cool! do you fire black powder guns mate? have you got materials for the spout and the extra bits?

 

[jojo]

Thanks gentlemen.. No, I don't have any black powder guns, but it's not for lack of wanting one or two!! I haven't got any extra bits either...yet...

 

[jojo]

I've done a bit more work on the powder horn today, namely, rasping, filing, sanding, the horn. The surface was quite rough and irregular, with a lot of scratches etc.

I made this small bench with the central post, it makes it easier to hold and file the horn.

And much easier to wet sand it too!

The colour has changed too. The pattern has come out beautifully.

 

[British Red]

That's gorgeous! Amazing change

 

[JAG009]

Thats the dogs! jojo

Jason

 

[chrisanson]

nice work!

 

[jojo]

I have done a bit more work today. The end's cut off, the hole is drilled and I couldn't resist doing a bit of decoration... It's not finished yet, more scrapping and fine sanding needed.

 

[British Red]

Blimey Joel - don't go too mad!

 

[lab72]

Loving it really nice .

 

[jojo]

Blimey Joel - don't go too mad!

It's all that sun, I tell you...went to my 'ead...

It's mainly all done now, some more sanding and polishing, really, I am just going to wait until I get the brass spout tip before doing any more finishing to the neck.