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Jack Horner -- REDEMPTION! -- Completion pics added!
JW_Halverson:
Yeah, real slo-mo now. I broke off the drill bit while putting in the pilot hole for the tip. I used a fine tip on the dremel tool to excavate around it but still could not back out the bit. I ended up sawing off most of the tip and boring it out just under half an inch.
Now I have to figure out what I am going to do for a new tip on the end. I'd love to do a Carolina style lathe turned tip, but I'm not set up for doing that. Thinking of taking leather disks saturated with ultra thin superglue and making a stacked tip! Will have to do some experimenting.
swamp yeti:
Yea boy that is going to be nice,got to see it when it is done.
JW_Halverson:
Here's where I left off.
I had just fitted quarter inch thick pine plug into the wide end of the horn. Once installed, I hogged out the center.
I cut a matching slab of walnut and sanded it perfectly flat. Here I am test-fitting.
JW_Halverson:
The walnut cap also gets hollowed out to match where I cut out the center of the plug fitted into the horn. I do this to add storage capacity to the powderhorn. The ring now installed inside the horn provides surface area to epoxy the walnut cap onto the horn.
I used to do one piece caps, but it was really tedious getting perfect fits and avoiding any gaps.
Ok, now for the photos of the screwed up tip. Here you see the broken off drill bit where I was putting in the pilot hole.
Here's the tip after sawing it off:
The plan is to deepen the groove that seperates the octagon section from the disc at the end of the tip of the horn. I am going to shape the disc to round the edges off to create a "ring". Then I will drill out the end to about half an inch, until it is bored out into the main cavity of the powderhorn. I intend to find a piece of white horn or something else to use to elongate the tip of the horn. It will then be tapered and shaped to finish out the horn. As it is, right now the horn is too wide to be useful for pouring powder into a measure or muzzle.
I kicked around the idea of using stacked leather soaked in superglue, but I think that's going to look just plain ugly as sin.
Are there any wood turners that have access to artificial bone/ivory? I know people that turn pen blanks use something like this. Anyone?
iowabow:
Cool post
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