,.........at least for me. 

I love doing the powder horns and also the scrimshaw on'em,....but when it gets down to it there is a bunch in me that just likes to wing it with some bone or antler,.....no real discipline or rules or purpose,.......just do it. I'm a bone and antler/horn addict,..always piddlin with it one way or another,...decided to get into one of my cow bones I've had on my trailer outside for a while.....I've actually been knockin the dust off several pieces with some 80 and 120 grit. This here is a rib sanded down to 2000....as with some wood I've finished it begins to take on that polish effect at around 600. This is just the beginning of the pencil sketch-up,.......next time I post hopefully it will have "of Liberty" added to it. Anyway,...part of what I did today,..later Gent's. -Aaron 

A great start, Aaron. I truly admire your work.

OH,..and there will be some wood in the project,...it'll have a curly maple base when finished.

Keep posting your progress, looking forward to seeing more.   

I am looking forward to see what this rib becomes.  Other than unique, I know it will be unique!

Here was initial sketch complete today,...I got over part of it with my scribe and the ink is drying at the moment. Will try to get down and see what I got shortly as far as letter/scrimshaw quality on the first pass ,...We'll see. It appeared to do ok but was for sure hard,....

 

This piece of maple is for something else,..but it was handy so I laid it there for the pic  

Alrighty Gent's,...this is the first pass of ink over what I had scratched. She does look a little dirty,..but I got more to do and will do final clean up at the end. A real heavy coat of wax  would have kept it cleaner etc,..just wasn't really what I was after here,...there may be a few places where I wished I used it but these are big chunky letters,...not a nautical whaling theme with ships and rigging,...so if a little extra ink adds a little extra age,...we'll take it on this one. -Aaron 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 15, 20206 yr by aaronc
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Looks good and you are right the extra ink makes it look aged some.  I like it!

That's looking might nice.

First pass on "Liberty" done today,.....will probably add a date and perhaps other designs on the ends where I have room on workable surface,......but this is the major lettering gone over once,..I'll piddle a little more next week.