Thread: Flattening Horn

And the result: I rough-cut them, flatted the inner faces, and then threw them in a pot of near-boiling water for a few minutes (before I saw the posts on thicknessing and shaping them first-Mr. Impatience, that's me!). Then I clamped them up together overnight, then double-side taped them together for shaping and thicknessing on the belts up to a 320 flexible belt for shaping. I was concerned about delamination on that rough orange grain per Xiaotuzi's advice, and certainly had to be very careful on the 50-grit hogging belt to avoid them getting grabby and rough, but things went much easier on the 240 and 320, where I smoothed it all out.

Then I hand-sanded up to 3000, with a final contouring and polish buffing with Fabuluster on loose cotton. I love that stuff, and it practically makes them glow, not that you can tell from my crappy photographs.



SO I'm pretty pleased with them, and can't wait to get that Ern Ator finished up and in these scales. Thanks for the advice all! Aaron