What to do with them horns?

[jojo]

My daughter and her boyfriend found and bought those from a car boot sale. Now, I am just wondering what can be done with them. Any ideas?

They are 32" long, 4" in diameter, any idea from which animal they could be from? ( I know...cows.. but which?)

Any help/advice/ideas appreciated.

 

[durulz]

Go all Viking.
Either make a comedy viking horned helmet, or perhaps a war horn for calling the tribe to arms, or even a drinking horn for lusty, foamy ale!

 

[Klenchblaize]

Anything from drinking vessels to knife scales or simply mounted for what they are - beautiful!

Cheers.

 

[British Red]

Big - look to curly for Ankole..Zebu maybe?

I'd love to see (or own) one turned into a hunting horn / war horn!

Red

 

[Tadpole]

My daughter and her boyfriend found and bought those from a car boot sale. Now, I am just wondering what can be done with them. Any ideas?



They are 32" long, 4" in diameter, any idea from which animal they could be from? ( I know...cows.. but which?)

Any help/advice/ideas appreciated.

shorten them, and make drinking horns (flog on ebay) and with the off-cuts cut them open (soak in hotwater to flatten them) make a couple of sheaths, anything left over flatten and make spoons.

 

[dwardo]

Asiatic horn/sinew bow

 

[Wayland]

Don't shorten them for drinking or blowing horns.

Finding big horns for that sort of thing is tricky so it'd be a waste to shorten them.

If it was me I'd make one of each and they look thick enough to carve them too.

Lucky find, I've been after a good pair like that for ages.

 

[Mesquite]

You could always do this with them

 

[tombear]

Yup, they are too nice to cut up but if you can't resist (I couldn't) you could make a tinder horn from the tip of one a salt horn fron the end of the other, several horn mugs, any number of spoons, buttons from the odd ments, flatten bits scraped thin for the sides of a lantern, I've always fancied a horn comb myself but never got round to sourcing one. Jeeze theres a whole winters pottering there!

It would really be a shame to chop them up though!

A great find!

ATB

Tom

 

[British Red]

Come on Joel - Boromir's horn.....it almost has to be done......

(I'd buy it )

Red

 

[Singeblister]

Nice find look forward to seeing what you turn em into

 

[spamel]

I'd say you should sell one to BR made into a war horn and the other into a drinking vessel for Wayland! They've both shown an interest, I reckon Wayland would struggle with a horns' worth of Stags' Breath, but it'd be great to watch either way!

 

[launditch1]

Fill them full of mead and WASSAIL!!

 

[jojo]

Wow!! Thanks for the ideas! Daughter and boyfriend want Boromir's war horn!! Maybe without the brass and cast stuff around it though, I am not that clever! Nicely polished, with brass and leather strap, it could be quite a nice piece. I may be tempted to attempt some simple carving on it. Or not because they have a rather beautiful pattern on them.. I'll try that on a smaller, less nice one, first!

The other one, I can have! Yay.. Got to decide what I'll do with mine now!! Amazing the amount of different things that can be made with horn! Keep them coming. What's the best way to polish horn?

 

[spamel]

I polished the horn I got from Tengu by going down through the grits and then buffing it up with a normal buffing wheel and a bit of compound. It came out quite nicely, although I could have done with going a bit finer before buffing. I still have to make the rest of that tinder horn, so many projects and so little time!

 

[Taran]

<<What's the best way to polish horn?>>

Treat it just as you would a delicate wood, progressively finer abrasives and finish with a good quality wax. If you are going to make a drinking horn then I have found GRP laminating resin to be good for the inside, but make sure it's well cured before you use it. (I have no idea about the health and safety implications, but numerous bottles of mead drunk from mine have done me no obvious harm)

 

[Wayland]

You don't need to coat the inside of the horn, just make sure it is clean.

Once you have finished and polished it the best treatment to keep it in good condition is hand cream.

It's basically the same material as fingernails.

 

[British Red]

<disturbing image of a Viking manicurist>

 

[jojo]

<disturbing image of a Viking manicurist>

I have visions of a viking reclining in the manicurist's chair having his nails and horned helmet polished by a couple of ladies! Unfortunately, I can't draw Where is Lindsey??

 

[British Red]

I had a vision of Wayland trimming my nails with a damn great axe