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Various Photos of Award Winning Work

These photos are of pieces I have kept to use in my classes and as a resource for ideas. The Possibles Pouch and Powder Horn in the first photos are pieces I have used as examples for different venues. The Powder Horn is 13" and the Pouch is between 8" wide and 6" deep with three pockets. It has won top honors at Dixon's Gun Fair and I have made pouch and horn combinations very much like it for films.

I make and decorate smoking pipes. The first photo is a horn pipe, about 10" long and breaks down into three parts. It has a cherry bowl, which was common for hand made pipes of the 18th and 19th centuries. The Calabash pipe is made very much the same way. The calabash gourd and the horn body act as a cooling chamber for smoke and can make a harsh tobacco paletable. Gourds are very hard and easy to engrave. The one in the photo is my pipe and I have kept it, "folky" to fit my style.

The "Watch Hutch" was the poor mans clock of the colonial period. This one stands 9" tall and will hold any watch from 2"- 2 1/2 inches wide. I heated a large piece of cow horn and pressed it flat. I used a common period theme, Adam & Eve, and engraved it with the appropriate verse, "In Adam and Eve's fall, mankind sinned all." This is a common them as well as, "Memento Mori" which means remember death or death awaits us all.

The last photo is of an award winning embossed German Hunting Pouch and Engrave German Powder Horn. The pouch has three pockets and is about 11" wide and the same deep. The horn is large, 15" long and made from a green cow's horn. It also is a top award winner from Dixon's Gun Fair.