I am doing more scrimshawed horns right now and trying some new things. This is my latest effort featuring a Carolina parakeet and a Northern Cardinal along with some fraktur flowers. I hope you like it. This right hand horn is 14″ around the outside curve and 11.5″ tip to tip, not including the […]
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This Virginia inspired powder horn has an applied Axis deer antler tip and turned black walnut base plug and stopper. The base plug has an acorn finial which was common on Virginia powder horns. The horn is technically a left hand horn, but is so straight it could be easily carried either way. It was […]
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This is a Virginia inspired, banded, applied-tip powder horn. It is a left hand horn that may be worn on either side. The tip is Axis deer antler. The base plug and stopper are black walnut. The horn has been dyed with ferric nitrate and gently aged. The horn is […]
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This is a powder horn that I have had on my build list a while and finally got around to doing it. It is a recreation of a horn shown on pages 334-335 of Jay Hopkin’s book Bone Tipped & Banded Horns. That horn was found in Virginia and the acorn is a Virginia motif. […]
The Face of God Fraktur I decided that I wanted to combine my fraktur (18th & 19th Century German-American folk art) work with my leather work in some way. Some sort of embroidery seemed the most sensible way to do it. So, I decided to create an original fraktur design hand embroidered on a canvas […]
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I have generally avoided scrimshaw because I have trouble controlling my hands. However, I decided that I wanted to try again. I made this banded, applied-tip horn and added some fraktur scrimshaw. This is a traditional right hand carry horn with the horn itself from the right side of the cow. The horn has an […]
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Shown here is my interpretation of a plain early 18th century horn. It was made to go with my Mid 18th Century shot pouch. This horn is based on the Gersham Biglow horn on page 13 of Powder Horns, Documents of History by Tom Grinslade. That horn is dated to 1746. This horn is 14 […]
Shown here is my version of a simple mid 18th Century shot pouch. It is a variant of my Early VA shot pouch which is based on an original Virginia shot pouch that was documented by Wallace Gusler in the December 2009 Muzzle Blasts(pp. 4-8) as well as a French and Indian War shot pouch […]
Golden Age of Hunting Pouches For many years I have concentrated on 18th century shot pouches and simple mountain shot pouches. These are generally small and of simple construction. Some may have been made by harness makers but most were home made. When we get to the 19th century, the shot pouch or hunting pouch […]
Southern Heart Shaped Shot Pouch Most of the southern mountain shot pouches shown on this page were copied from Jim Webb’s book Sketches of Hunting Pouches, Powder Horns, and Accoutrements of Southern Appalachia. I made the first, heart shaped, shot pouches pictured here exactly as shown on pages 18-19; approximately 7.5″wide x 7.5″ high, using […]
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