Hi folks
in between de rusting stuff I've been fiddling with a "Present from Switzerland" type horn that i got for a quid in a charity shop.
Between where the hanging hooks were there was enough to make a tinder horn, something I'd actully use to store spare charcloth for my tinder box.
Anyroad rather than turn the ends and boil the horn to fit on them I carved the two end caps from bits of a really old table leg that was on the wood pile.
Its about 5 inches long.
After I have sanded and polished the horn i will glue on the smaller plug with resin and a little ground up charcoal and pin it in place with some of the ancient copper tacks I once found, like I did the salt horn. I've still to drill the holes in the plugs for the thong and probably fit a peg to the lid plug so the cord can be looped on that.
I'm thinking of doing some scrimshaw on this one, anyone know any good cheats/tricks?
ATB
Tom
PS finally put up the £1-off-a-car-boot-as-the-reformed-Goth-didn't-want-to-take-it-home-chandelier that was hanging around my shed as the youngest had flown a model helicopter into a light bulb so we had to drag a ladder into it anyway. Thinking of turning something a bit prettier, copied from a 18th C Colonial design, just a wooden hub with s shaped tin or copper tube arms... OK it will take another 2 years to get around to....
in between de rusting stuff I've been fiddling with a "Present from Switzerland" type horn that i got for a quid in a charity shop.
Between where the hanging hooks were there was enough to make a tinder horn, something I'd actully use to store spare charcloth for my tinder box.
Anyroad rather than turn the ends and boil the horn to fit on them I carved the two end caps from bits of a really old table leg that was on the wood pile.

Its about 5 inches long.
After I have sanded and polished the horn i will glue on the smaller plug with resin and a little ground up charcoal and pin it in place with some of the ancient copper tacks I once found, like I did the salt horn. I've still to drill the holes in the plugs for the thong and probably fit a peg to the lid plug so the cord can be looped on that.
I'm thinking of doing some scrimshaw on this one, anyone know any good cheats/tricks?
ATB
Tom
PS finally put up the £1-off-a-car-boot-as-the-reformed-Goth-didn't-want-to-take-it-home-chandelier that was hanging around my shed as the youngest had flown a model helicopter into a light bulb so we had to drag a ladder into it anyway. Thinking of turning something a bit prettier, copied from a 18th C Colonial design, just a wooden hub with s shaped tin or copper tube arms... OK it will take another 2 years to get around to....
