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Information and Resources => Trading Post => Topic started by: Mafort on January 15, 2020, 02:57:27 pm

Title: Cut horns for trade.
Post by: Mafort on January 15, 2020, 02:57:27 pm

Lookin to see what’s out there. I have two pairs of horns the shortest  is 50+CM and the longest is 70CM. I’m looking at anything that you may have for trade.

Title: Re: Cut horns for trade.
Post by: backwoodsguy on January 16, 2020, 07:09:21 am

So are you saying that a "pair" are 19.7 inches and 27.56 inches tip to tip? That would mean the horns would be around 10- 14 inches long. Good sizes for powder horns.

Title: Re: Cut horns for trade.
Post by: Mafort on January 16, 2020, 11:09:07 am

These are already cut.

Title: Re: Cut horns for trade.
Post by: Pat B on January 16, 2020, 11:13:59 am

Cow horn or water buff?

Title: Re: Cut horns for trade.
Post by: Mafort on January 16, 2020, 12:42:01 pm

Water buffalo.

Title: Re: Cut horns for trade.
Post by: Pat B on January 16, 2020, 01:25:51 pm

Full horn or slabs?

Title: Re: Cut horns for trade.
Post by: Mafort on January 16, 2020, 01:48:02 pm

Quote from: Pat B on January 16, 2020, 01:25:51 pm

Full horn or slabs?

It’s the outside curve of the horn used to make horn bellies.

Title: Re: Cut horns for trade.
Post by: High-Desert on January 18, 2020, 11:54:34 am

Anything you are looking for? I have staves, a few vine maple and yew

Title: Re: Cut horns for trade.
Post by: Mafort on January 18, 2020, 09:45:22 pm

I’d actually like a finish it yourself kind of stave made from yew in an English longbow style. Could you do that?

Title: Re: Cut horns for trade.
Post by: High-Desert on January 19, 2020, 10:01:21 am

How finished are you looking for? Finish as in you finish tillering it, or, finish as you put a finish on it? Right now I have a English long bow that is finished tillering, and has tallow beeswax on it. It still needs horn or antler nocks put on. Is that too finished?

Title: Re: Cut horns for trade.
Post by: Mafort on January 19, 2020, 10:21:18 am

I was thinking like a square blank that needs to be shaped and tillered. So I can try tillering it myself.

Title: Re: Cut horns for trade.
Post by: High-Desert on January 19, 2020, 11:01:25 am

ok, i will take a look and see what I have that I can make a square blank out of

Title: Re: Cut horns for trade.
Post by: Mafort on January 19, 2020, 01:10:43 pm

If it’s a hassle then we can trade for yew or vine maple. I haven’t had the privilege of working with either here in kentucky. It’s not one of the native woods

Title: Re: Cut horns for trade.
Post by: High-Desert on January 19, 2020, 02:15:31 pm

Do you have a certain length you are looking for?