12-21-2009, 06:35 PM
Hey folks,
Since the end of the summer I've been pretty much swamped at work, and barely even had time to argue on the internet. Before free time went by the wayside I did have the opportunity to complete a nice little project for my kit, and now that things are easing off a bit, I thought I'd make it the subject of my first post now that we have a re-enactment forum.
First a little background:
When I was looking at drinking horns I was also wondering if the Greeks made sounding horns, but failed to find a single example identified as such in the Beazely or elsewhere. Then, cruising event pics on Flikr one night I decided to have a troll through the site to see if there were any interesting greek pics out there. One of my first finds was a pic of a
terracotta tile dating to 500-450 BCE from Appolonia Pontica.
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A larger pic is available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/dandiffendale/3502689902/
It seems to show an armoured hoplite sounding a hunting horn, right down to the blown out cheeks and pursed lips. As this is a project I've been interest in doing for a while, I was thrilled.
Checking my stores, I found the perfect horn for the job: thick walled, broad tipped, and with some size to it. However, up until that point my horn work had been fairly plain, and I was looking to do something a little more decorative. In order to do it right some research would be required. A little digging revealed a nice Boeotian rhyton that I liked the look of.
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The wide flare at the end will have to be an applique of metal (at some point, and I might do the little animorphic tip separately as a stopper. But for now the main job would be the sounding horn proper. Some references for the work were:
"Recreating the 18th Century Powder Horn", Scott and Kathy Sibely (its the most acessible horn working reference I've found so far)
"Where i the horn that was blowing," http://www.bmarch.atfreeweb.com/where_the_horn.htm
"Making a functional signal horn" http://lochcairn.freeservers.com/classe ... lhorn.html
Next Post: Basic Shaping
Since the end of the summer I've been pretty much swamped at work, and barely even had time to argue on the internet. Before free time went by the wayside I did have the opportunity to complete a nice little project for my kit, and now that things are easing off a bit, I thought I'd make it the subject of my first post now that we have a re-enactment forum.
First a little background:
When I was looking at drinking horns I was also wondering if the Greeks made sounding horns, but failed to find a single example identified as such in the Beazely or elsewhere. Then, cruising event pics on Flikr one night I decided to have a troll through the site to see if there were any interesting greek pics out there. One of my first finds was a pic of a
terracotta tile dating to 500-450 BCE from Appolonia Pontica.
[attachment=0:2ihoq8hz]<!-- ia0 HopliteTileSmall.jpg<!-- ia0 [/attachment:2ihoq8hz]
A larger pic is available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/dandiffendale/3502689902/
It seems to show an armoured hoplite sounding a hunting horn, right down to the blown out cheeks and pursed lips. As this is a project I've been interest in doing for a while, I was thrilled.
Checking my stores, I found the perfect horn for the job: thick walled, broad tipped, and with some size to it. However, up until that point my horn work had been fairly plain, and I was looking to do something a little more decorative. In order to do it right some research would be required. A little digging revealed a nice Boeotian rhyton that I liked the look of.
[attachment=1:2ihoq8hz]<!-- ia1 Rhyton2.jpg<!-- ia1 [/attachment:2ihoq8hz]
The wide flare at the end will have to be an applique of metal (at some point, and I might do the little animorphic tip separately as a stopper. But for now the main job would be the sounding horn proper. Some references for the work were:
"Recreating the 18th Century Powder Horn", Scott and Kathy Sibely (its the most acessible horn working reference I've found so far)
"Where i the horn that was blowing," http://www.bmarch.atfreeweb.com/where_the_horn.htm
"Making a functional signal horn" http://lochcairn.freeservers.com/classe ... lhorn.html
Next Post: Basic Shaping
Cole