Hello, I bought a drinking horn today from an antique store and some idiot drilled a hole in it, can some one recommend the fastest/cheapest way to fill it out, and wouldn't be noticeable too much? Thank you beforehand.
meh.....very sharp knife, very fine sandpaper, scrap and sand the horn keeping the shavings and sanding dust in a pile. Tape the inside hole; mix clear 2 part epoxy with shavings and sanding dust and jamb into the hole. Scrape and sand again. Wrap a leather band around where the hole is and wala toenail tasting drinking vessel.
nearly impossible to hale it hidden but can get close
Jb weld or epoxy and then paint it over with the same color as the horn.
Lowes can match the color for you, and if you know how to jb weld right, it would hardly be noticeable and still hold water.
>>997160
after paint is dried, I don't see why it wouldn't be.
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>>997126
Rather than hiding it, wouldn't a very well-done inlay plug of mother of pearl or something look arguably better? As a craftsman and sculptor, I always find tasteful patches in flawed materials more beautiful, honest, and visually intriguing than all but the best restorations. Hell, even some of the historical restoration jobs in museum objects rub me the wrong way.
Anyway, my gut instinct if it were my horn would be to inlay 3 mother of pearl dots going up from the existing hole along the curve of the form with a 1" spacing. 5 if I was feeling spicy.
>>997172
That's an idea. I repair and refurbish fridges for a living, so my gut instinct is to use epoxy and paint to seal up aesthetic blemishes like holes and and whatnot in the plastic/poly
>>997115
Weld it with a Tig welder.
