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I can’t draw a straight line. I tried my first scrimshaw on my salt horn
I offer it for a chuckle
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Nothing wrong with that, folk art. There were probably more horns than we can imagine with work like that that are now lost. Your rhyme has a folksy flavor (pun) to it also.
A good number of horns were "folk art". Professionally scrimshawed horns were expensive then, and expensive today.
 
Sitting around a fire at night, almost no light, using a pocket knife or a sharp nail from a blacksmith or out of a dead horse hoof, can imagine very easily this look. Could even have had many misspellings in how we view words these days as well. I would enjoy making that and carrying it at a rondi with a story like that.
 
I love the "folk" look of the scrimshawing you did. I think it adds more character than a "neat" scrimshawed horn. Looks like something a bored frontiersman would make in his spare time.
 
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