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Working With Horn
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/horn/horng.html
WORKING WITH HORN AND SKELETAL MATERIALS
http://www.dnaco.net/~arundel/bone_pamplet4.htm
Bone and Antler Working
http://www.regia.org/bonework.htm
Seems that horn is easily worked if it is heated and can actually be moulded into forms, such as spoons.
So, I'd imagine a large horn would be so treated, then flattened and cut in large rectangles or shapes to fit, and then glued and have the seams structurally supported by metal bands of some sort.
I have some ram's horns given me. One had deteriorated a great deal, and to my suprise the inner horn is actually a spongey-appearing material, surrounded by the hard, exterior horn. In this case, I was able to take the horns themselves off the skull and still leave the pourous appearing inner material attached.
VERY much unlike antler.
Kis
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/horn/horng.html
WORKING WITH HORN AND SKELETAL MATERIALS
http://www.dnaco.net/~arundel/bone_pamplet4.htm
Bone and Antler Working
http://www.regia.org/bonework.htm
Seems that horn is easily worked if it is heated and can actually be moulded into forms, such as spoons.
So, I'd imagine a large horn would be so treated, then flattened and cut in large rectangles or shapes to fit, and then glued and have the seams structurally supported by metal bands of some sort.
I have some ram's horns given me. One had deteriorated a great deal, and to my suprise the inner horn is actually a spongey-appearing material, surrounded by the hard, exterior horn. In this case, I was able to take the horns themselves off the skull and still leave the pourous appearing inner material attached.
VERY much unlike antler.
Kis
