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Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: Jodocus on February 01, 2016, 10:35:10 am

Title: Blowhorn
Post by: Jodocus on February 01, 2016, 10:35:10 am

Side-blown, 33 inches long.

Title: Re: Blowhorn
Post by: Pappy on February 01, 2016, 10:45:58 am

Now that is cool, I have a couple I made that blow from the end, I may have to try that  type, any advice on where and how to drill the hole/size and other tid bits of info that might help. :)
 Pappy

Title: Re: Blowhorn
Post by: Jodocus on February 01, 2016, 10:54:36 am

Thanks, I got that design from ancient bronze age metal horns, and also african horns often blow from the side. I felt that it leaves the curve of the horn more intact, I did not have to cap the tip. I just stuck a thin branch into the horn to check where the cavity ends and drilled the hole there.

Title: Re: Blowhorn
Post by: Zuma on February 01, 2016, 01:34:53 pm

I'm guessing the horn is from a long horn steer?
Cool 8)
Zuma

Title: Re: Blowhorn
Post by: Jodocus on February 01, 2016, 02:07:22 pm

  ;D Nope, it's from a highlandcattle my neighbour keeps. A cousin of he two cows in the pic, if I'm not mistaking. And they taste great, as well...

Title: Re: Blowhorn
Post by: loon on February 01, 2016, 08:11:40 pm

Nice!
Wonder if they make good hornbows..

Title: Re: Blowhorn
Post by: Jodocus on February 02, 2016, 01:32:08 am

I never made one, but there's most often two curves to these horns, some kind of spiralling, cows and bulls alike...  ??? Exeption are the ox (most of the bull calves are gelded so they can stay with the herd), theirs are one curve. Should ask him for a pair of these.

Title: Re: Blowhorn
Post by: Zuma on February 02, 2016, 09:41:21 am

Thanks for the info and photos. Cool looking cattle 8)
and neat horns.
Zuma

Title: Re: Blowhorn
Post by: riverrat on February 02, 2016, 09:51:43 pm

i like that. pretty cool.Tony

Title: Re: Blowhorn
Post by: Pappy on February 03, 2016, 07:23:15 am

What size hole ? Did you drill the small hole first ? and then bigger inlet for your mouth? I was thinking a small hole [ what size] and counter sink the larger just not all the way through for your lips. :-\  Just checking before I ruin a nice horn. :)
 Pappy

Title: Re: Blowhorn
Post by: Jodocus on February 03, 2016, 02:50:11 pm

Pappy, that's what I did. I then enlarged the cavity of the mouthpiece until I got a sound. A coarse one. I tried to adapt my technique to get it clearer, until I saw my five year old daughter blow out a cristal clear, fat note. I then enlarged it further, now it sounds quite well, but still, the little one can do better... :P
Now it's about an inch wide and half an inch deep.

Title: Re: Blowhorn
Post by: YosemiteBen on February 03, 2016, 03:57:50 pm

Now that is cool! I might have to make one - in all of my SPARE time of course!

Title: Re: Blowhorn
Post by: Pappy on February 04, 2016, 05:47:40 am

Yep, I can see one in my future , I had a good friend fro FL. come up to hunt this fall and brought me a bunch of Longhorn horns they raise down there. I Was trying to figure out what to do with them before some of the guys around there find them and make tip over lays or something like that out of them, ???  they are way to cool for that. I made a couple that blow from the end in the past but the problem was getting the hole through the solid end without busting through the side because of the curve in the horn, seems this one you made would be easier to control the drill hole. ;) Thanks. I think I will start with about 5/16 hole and go from there.
 Pappy

Title: Re: Blowhorn
Post by: Olanigw (Pekane) on March 09, 2016, 10:05:28 am

Good looking Shofar there.

Title: Re: Blowhorn
Post by: Urufu_Shinjiro on March 10, 2016, 04:41:52 pm

Awesome. And with the side blown it can double as a beer (mead) funnel when the party really gets going, lol.