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I needed another scrimshaw project since I have been down with some back and leg issues and was losing my mind watching movies while confined in my chair. This rum horn is my seventeenth horn with sixteen of them being scrimshawed; it is my third rum horn. My mentor, Billy Griner, incorporated many lessons in the construction of this particular horn to include many hours on a lathe. It was an experiment for us both, and took a life of its own. It is scrimshawed with a folk art night theme to include a fingernail moon with stars and a trail of stardust. A sleeping fox rests underneath while a possum hangs from the text box by its tail and holds my maker’s mark. The feather is a Whipoorwill feather. The text reads, “A mule’s ear of rum” in honor of my friend, Dan Chanclor. Many thanks to Mr. Griner for the patience, wisdom, guidance, demonstrations and assistance on this work of art! I’d appreciate any feedback; I’m still learning.
Beautiful work!
 
Back to that doggone moon. I have always loved the old Art nouveau depictions of the man in the crescent moon but yours goes many levels above any that I have seen.
About NyQuil being involved in the creation of the possum, enough of that stuff and you and that possum could carry on a conversation……and he would make sense
 
Back to that doggone moon. I have always loved the old Art nouveau depictions of the man in the crescent moon but yours goes many levels above any that I have seen.
About NyQuil being involved in the creation of the possum, enough of that stuff and you and that possum could carry on a conversation……and he would make sense
He was talking ugly to me for a few nights there! That moon evolved far from my original thought and sketches; I’m going to refine it a bit and add a tear drop on the next one in honor of my recently deceased cousin.
 
I needed another scrimshaw project since I have been down with some back and leg issues and was losing my mind watching movies while confined in my chair. This rum horn is my seventeenth horn with sixteen of them being scrimshawed; it is my third rum horn. My mentor, Billy Griner, incorporated many lessons in the construction of this particular horn to include many hours on a lathe. It was an experiment for us both, and took a life of its own. It is scrimshawed with a folk art night theme to include a fingernail moon with stars and a trail of stardust. A sleeping fox rests underneath while a possum hangs from the text box by its tail and holds my maker’s mark. The feather is a Whipoorwill feather. The text reads, “A mule’s ear of rum” in honor of my friend, Dan Chanclor. Many thanks to Mr. Griner for the patience, wisdom, guidance, demonstrations and assistance on this work of art! I’d appreciate any feedback; I’m still learning.
What kind/type of piece of ivory did you start with for the body?
 

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