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Really interesting and great photo. Do you happen to know when they go about cutting the horn, is it bisected right down the middle and then flattened, or something like cut the the centre and then...

Really awesome tips here, thanks everyone. I'll have to go pick up some steel wool this weekend. the experimentation and learning piece is one of the bst parts of this hobby.

Cheers!

A good thought, but those were there before I boiled and flattened them. Ridges had risen up on the scles, I think for being so old and dried out. A lot of them went down a bit after the soak in...

I looked with a loupe and I'm more and more convinced that it's simply striation lines. If you look at the bottom photo in my opening post you can see those same markings running along the edge of...

I have done both dry sanding and wet sanding and it doesn't appear to make a difference. I've probably remove 0.5mm (1/50 of an inch) off that side and it hasn't altered those markings in the least....

Hi folks,

So, I salvaged a set of very old black horn scales from a junker and went about touching them up to use on some unknown future project. This is my first experience with horn but I felt...