After sanding it a bit, I started by burning designs into it with my leather brander. Horns are basically giant fingernails, so it smells like burning hair, but it doesn't last.
Rose de Neige is my SCA name (as well as my middle name). It's french for rose of the snow. It's a family name.
Then I traced this drawing onto it and used a Dremel engraving tool and this thing:
Yes, that is a dental tool/needle hybrid. Put away your iphones, because this is the new HEIGHT of technology! The stabby-scrapey-thingama...thing. I believe that's the technical term....Moving on.
After a few hours of anal retentivity, covering up now permanent mistakes and developing a new appreciation for professional scrimshaw artists. (Yes, those are hand carved images on pocket knives, making anything I do look like graffitti scratched into a public bathroom stall with a safety pin).
There was a lot of india ink involved, this sooty aspect having since been cleaned up with sand paper and elbow grease.More photos of the final product later. When it's done dripping shellac.
