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FVR:
I just usually scrape the horn with a cab. scraper.  Looks real nice.  I finish with hooflex a product sold at horse tack stores for care and polishing of horse hooves.  Stinks, but works nicely for what I use it for.

stickbender:

     When I was younger, we would go to the butcher when he was butchering cows, and get the cow horns, and put them on ant mounds till the horn would slip off, and then boil them to kill the nasties in side, and then wet and scrape them with pieces of broken glass.  Usually old mayonaise jars.  Then when they were thin as we wanted, we would wet them again, and sand them with medium grip paper, and finally to 200-220 grit, all of this was with the grain, or length wise.  Then when nice and smoothe, we would polish it with a paste wax, and buff it.  It makes a beautiful shine.  It should work as well with Gemsbok horn, since horn is just compressed hair, like your finger nails, and animal hoofs.  I hope this helps.

                                                                                                 Wayne

bobnewboy:
It isnt very primitive, but the following works really well: cut to shape, sand smooth with finer and finer sandpaper, then finally turn to a buffing wheel or piece of rag with T-Cut automotive paint refinishing compound.  It gives a great polish to horn, and doesnt smell too bad.

//Bob

Cromm:
hi,
i've seen a bow made out of them. Nice to shoot too.....

myc11:
Beleg813

My uncle polished horn handles of umbrellas and walking sticks in the 1930's and 40's with Brasso. He had an umbrella business.

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