First Scratch Built Horn

[hotfxr]

My neighbor gave me a nice polished cow horn a few days ago. I had some hunks of walnut left over and decided to give building a horn a try. A little bandsaw cutting, a little creative rabbetting with a table saw, a little lathe work, and viola, a functioning powder horn.





The horn was a little more tightly curved than I would like which is making it solely a right side horn, but I can most likely work around that. The knob on the base is a finial from a broken cast hinge that was made in Ohio in the 1830's. Polished it up and blued it. Still trying to come up with a strap that I like. I would spend more time figuring bag, horn, etc. placement if my wife and daughter didn't laugh so much when I keep trying different configurations of all my shooting gear.     

[Hank12]

Looks good, HF, keep on changing things til you get what you like.  Hank