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smithing-chick — Ceremonial Drinking Horn
Published: 2005-11-09 12:06:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 4312; Favourites: 44; Downloads: 119
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My first foray into serious raising, done two years ago, in my Intermeadiate class. Also my first attempt at etching silver. The thing is about 14 inches long & all sterling silver. It holds a lot of mead- or will once I fix the leak.Related content
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Would love to know the price if you would be kind enough to send me a note! Greetings from Sweden!
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this is really beautiful. i love this bit rugged, simplish look (as contrary to objects covered from top to bottom in details & ornament). i was never so much into too baroque & polished items...
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Great piece! Has the leak been fixed? Home brewed mead? very interesting.
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Wonderful! How much silver did you put into it? it looks very solid... I wish i could afford making something like this oneday...
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Yer a blacksmith, not a whitesmith!
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Heh - i still belive that one should at least try mastering all kinds of crafting
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Thank you!
The best part of the horn was mentioning to my classmates that it would be used in actual Rites (most of them know I'm a Druid). So, being young college students, they asked, "So what sort of beverages do you guys drink at your rites?" To which I responded, "Beer. Maybe wine or hard cider. But if we're really lucky, there will be mead." Somehow, they were surprised that it would be an alchoholic beverage. I told them they needed to get out more.
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Ha, what kind of weenie Druid would have grape juice in their drinking horn? Mmm...mead, haven't had that in forever.
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Wow, this is simply stunning! Great work, I must say you are extremely talented!!!!
I was wondering if it was possible for me to use this in a deviation? I will give you credit with link back and give you the link to the finished piece if so.
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Dude! I never responded to this! I'm such a dA slacker....
Yeah, you can use it if you like. I'd love to see what you come up with!
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realy amasing details end shape, man, good work !
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oh sorry i would say girl !
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I'd say woman, m'self. I'm a bit past girlhood, as my begging-to-be-dyed grey hairs will testify.
But thank you for the lovely compliment (& forgive the delay in the reply)
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Thanks!
The etching ended up more difficult then it should have been. I couldn't get the acid to etch at all. We finally figured out that the silver-etching acid was dead & once we mixed up some new stuff, it worked great!
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As an enamelist friend of mine once said " That's a right on ryton." Is the whole length of the horn form raised, or is it assembled in sections like the "Lost Horn" was? I have been thinking of doing something simmiliar, though quite mod. by decking either a simple fold form, or maybe an anitclastic helicoid. In either case i would use a broad and roughly triangular base pattern.
By the way I took another look at your gallery, and I like the pelican, It reminds me of the work of my just mentionedf friend.
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I didn't do the enameling on that piece- just the setting. A friend of mine in Pittsburgh did the enameling who does a lot of cloisane work. And yes, it's absolutely gorgous!
As for the horn....Three main sections, which started as lap-jointed cones & raised over stakes, the bird cap is cast & the two "bands" started as flat sheets which I etched, formed & decked.
Trying to raise something of that size with that kind of curve from one single piece would have been a nightmare- it was hard enough with the sections I had!
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No worries on the duplicate, I do that all the time. As for raising over fabrication, I think you may just be trading one nightmare for another.
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Err.... I wonder how it is I replied to this one twice.... & yet another reply to someone else has disappeared.....
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Three main sections, which started as lap-jointed cones. The bird cap on the end is cast & the two "bands" started as flat sheets that I etched, formed & decked.
Trying to raise it all as one piece would have been insane- it was hard enough getting all the curves right in the sections I had!
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I thought so; Long ago I made a couple of copper trumpets in much the same way.
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Thanks!
Love your shirts- once I get money, I'll be back.
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Well, hello from across the border - I'm about as near Erie as you can be without being in the same state 
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I guess so! Nice to meet a neighbor.
I'm actually down in Edinboro now. I got sick of the drive down here to school every day. Or, more accurately, the drive back home to sleep at 4 am after 14 hours in the studio. :-P
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