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Title: New powder horn
Post by: Spotted Dog on June 23, 2016, 05:10:10 pm

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Hand rolled brass tube and hand cut top . Soldered together and nailed on . Pine base nailed on and sealed air tight.

Title: Re: New powder horn
Post by: Knotty on June 23, 2016, 05:15:00 pm

Cow horn?

Title: Re: New powder horn
Post by: Spotted Dog on June 23, 2016, 05:34:40 pm

Yes. Off a longhorn

Title: Re: New powder horn
Post by: Knotty on June 23, 2016, 05:46:13 pm

Nice job 👍

Title: Re: New powder horn
Post by: ---GUTSHOT---> on June 23, 2016, 06:54:23 pm

That's cool

Title: Re: New powder horn
Post by: mullet on June 23, 2016, 08:37:27 pm

That is a really cool horn. Did you get that idea from an original?

Title: Re: New powder horn
Post by: Zuma on June 23, 2016, 08:59:57 pm

Very nice sir.
Zuma

Title: Re: New powder horn
Post by: Spotted Dog on June 23, 2016, 09:27:41 pm

  Yes I did. I have seen Spanish like this , but it is more French and the Matchlock era . I have a 1680s musket to finish.
A William III musket.  A .775 cal  or 10 gauge.

Title: Re: New powder horn
Post by: Pappy on June 24, 2016, 03:57:03 am

I like it a lot, may try to make one like that. Is that a copper tube for pouring the powder ?
 Pappy

Title: Re: New powder horn
Post by: Spotted Dog on June 24, 2016, 08:58:12 am

Yes it is. I need to make a plug for it. Maybe dogwood.

Title: Re: New powder horn
Post by: BowEd on June 24, 2016, 09:06:37 am

Nice job Dog soldering and all......Any steam shaping done to this one?The pouring end looks flatter right?Suppose that's the design factor.What are the dimensions?Have you delved into skrimshawing a time or two?You got a really nice white background for it on this one.

Title: Re: New powder horn
Post by: Spotted Dog on June 24, 2016, 01:07:38 pm

 Thanks. I wish I would of had a good mandrel to form spout. I used a rock hammer and a drift punch from when I was
still able to work full time. Pouring end is flat and I let the horn determine shape. It is 6 1/2 " tall and 3" base and 2 1/2 top.
I have tried some scrim, but hurts my hands too much. I have another in the works. Going to make a bait horn too.
Maybe even a tinder horn.

Title: Re: New powder horn
Post by: mullet on June 24, 2016, 06:00:05 pm

Now I know why I asked, saw it in Muzzleloader Magazine.

Title: Re: New powder horn
Post by: Spotted Dog on June 24, 2016, 08:20:19 pm

 I haven't seen it. Which issue ? I like the real early guns.

Title: Re: New powder horn
Post by: mullet on June 24, 2016, 10:09:00 pm

May/June, 2016.

Title: Re: New powder horn
Post by: DC on June 25, 2016, 02:08:22 pm

Do these powderhorns have a built in measuring system of some sort? I remember Davy Crockett tipping the horn up and I've always wondered how he controlled how much powder was going into the gun.

Title: Re: New powder horn
Post by: Spotted Dog on June 25, 2016, 03:12:31 pm

 NEVER load straight out of a horn of any kind. You would pour into a measure of some kind. Then down . Not a very safe thing to do
otherwise.

Title: Re: New powder horn
Post by: DC on June 25, 2016, 08:07:59 pm

I guess that takes too long for Hollywood

Title: Re: New powder horn
Post by: mullet on June 25, 2016, 08:52:30 pm

It would be cool Special Affects when the hand held bomb went off, though. :o