Thread: What are you working on?

Svisson I took horn scales boiling water and used the steam to bend them the direction I wanted on my Tally Ho. It is a bit time consuming but due to their age I wanted to go slow. This in no way affected the look of the horn.

Originally Posted by ejmolitor37

Svisson I took horn scales boiling water and used the steam to bend them the direction I wanted on my Tally Ho. It is a bit time consuming but due to their age I wanted to go slow. This in no way affected the look of the horn.

I agree, I have also done it that way plus Outback Mikes way with a heat lamp.

I believe I'll get me a heat lamp save from running the stove and heating the kitchen up and upsetting the wife heat lamp would be handy.

Originally Posted by ejmolitor37

I believe I'll get me a heat lamp save from running the stove and heating the kitchen up and upsetting the wife heat lamp would be handy.

An electric hair straightener works well, you could probably find a used one at say Goodwill. Also the 'heat guns' that Harbor Freight are pretty inexpensive but they put out a lot of heat so you'd need to be careful. Just another thought.

It works on plastic scales too.

But ya gotta keep testing the temp. and flexibility of the scales with you hand. You can get horn so hot, it will start curling, but you'll scrap a plastic set, well before that temp.
I've only scrapped one set of plastic (cellulose) scales with the heat lamp. But I learned from it, and I've gone on to straightening many other's, successfully. [emoji41]

Originally Posted by cudarunner

An electric hair straightener works well, you could probably find a used one at say Goodwill. Also the 'heat guns' that Harbor Freight are pretty inexpensive but they put out a lot of heat so you'd need to be careful. Just another thought.

Or my wife has an old one I will steal! Bahaha

Originally Posted by ejmolitor37

Or my wife has an old one I will steal! Bahaha

Just make sure it's an Old UNUSED One--I'd hate to hear of those hormones of her's that seem to be present at this time running rampant and out of control coming into play in your life.

My heat gun has a thermostatic control to make it hotter or cooler so I imagine messing around with it some & noting the temp when success with a warped scale is achieved would work.

It took me a while but I finished up my first three restorations. I poured a lot of time first into the W&B Celebrated. Learned a lot with patience being a key I think. For the W&B in faux ivory, I tried a satin finish application the way Tuzi does it--I don't have his mastery of the technique (nor the photography skills) but it works very, very well and I think that may become my go-to finishing style.

That is some work to be proud of. The blades look great and I can see the attention to detail.
The wedge ends are sweet!

Get Tuzi to coach you on photography a bit and get those on the custom-builts and restorations subforum pronto! That's an order!

I think most things done here should be run there as well. JMO.



(Nice Corian!)