bending horns

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  • July 6, 2011 at 8:39 pm #42903
    CharlyBonifaz
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    http://www.nfb.ca/film/dont_knock_the_ox

    at 2.11 -2.30 they show how they bend the horn after having heated the tip with boiling water; any idea how long that takes?

    July 11, 2011 at 12:40 am #68280
    Tim Harrigan
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    Elke, I don’t know, but if you could find some horns that are no longer attached to their owners you could try it out and practice a bit. I am sure long, thin horns would bend easier than shorter, thicker horns. Good luck with that.

    July 11, 2011 at 2:14 am #68282
    Roscoe
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    Make sure that you only heat up the tip, do not overheat the live tissue in the horns.

    July 11, 2011 at 10:10 am #68279
    CharlyBonifaz
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    couldn’t help it, but when I saw it I immediately thought of a perm ……
    😀

    Make sure that you only heat up the tip

    positively, that is also what they do; I imagine besides that, the closer you work on the head the more you risk burning parts you don’t want to

    July 16, 2011 at 10:14 am #68281
    mother katherine
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    Thanks for the video. I watched it yesterday on broadband. It brought back a lot of memories from my childhood in Maine. Apparently, the video is for sale. I can’t wait to get one; my little stash of ox videos is, indeed, little, but inspiring and comforting in this draft cattle void.
    oxnun

    July 18, 2011 at 3:51 pm #68278
    Vicki
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    Howie has said that old-timers told of bending longer more mature ox horns by shoving a feshly baked loaf of bread right out of the oven, onto the horn. After the steam softened the shell, it was bent. Sorry, I haven’t seen the video yet–computer slowness.

    April 15, 2012 at 10:18 pm #68283
    oxman
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    Hello, we used to use a baked turnip. Who would waste a good loaf of bread? This method is for bending the outer tip of the horn as seen on the Film Board of Canada video that was made here. You don’t want to use too much heat as this may make the horn brittle, not to mention hot.

    Carmen

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