Just a little powder horn work

I got the neck of the horn dyed this weekend. I usually used RIT dye, but the color wasn't coming out good at all, so I switched to leather dye. Color looks good to me. The dye goes past the neck onto the body, so that is cleaned up with a little scraping. Now the engraving can start.

Looks great, thanks for posting.

Beautiful! Nice to see it come together like this.

Sweet!

Watching

Fiebings Pro Dye is what I use. There's a way to keep it from rubbing off but I can't remember what it is at the moment.

Mike

That's what I ended up using. If you remember what to seal it with, please let me know.

I'll have to look it up now... Getting old sucks. Lol

Mike

You might ask Tim over on ALR... Seems that's where I remember reading about it.

Mike

Might be in here... A coat of paste wax... I think.

https://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=34284.0

Mike

Thanks Mike. Looks like heat to set and a coat of wax afterwards might be the ticket.

That sounds right. Good luck. And nice work.

Mike

Different dyes for different materials. Horn is protein, leather and hair are protein. Wool is protein. Cotton and linen are vegetable. Ritt is for vegatable fiber. Use a dye for protein. Hair dye works well on horn too.