Powder Horn Workshop

Date:September 19-22, 2010

Registration Deadline:September 3, 2010

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Build your own powder horn! The powder horn that participants will be making is a common horn from the late 1700’s or early 1800’s. The base is a turned wooden plug with iron nails. The spout is filled with a fiddle plug stopper. The scrimshawing is basic but is limited only to the builder’s imagination and talent. Horns will be carved using knives and rasps.

What You Get

• A beautiful custom made Powder Horn


• The cost of the class is less than what you would expect to pay for a completed horn purchased from a professional Horner.
• Knowledge to last a lifetime!

Participation is limited to 10 participants for a better instructor participant ratio!


Only $210.00!!
This covers all programming & instruction fees, Powder Horn kit, meals, and lodging.
Refund Policy
Full: by September 3, 2010
50%: after September 3, 2010
Nonrefundable after:
September 10, 2010


About the Instructor

Jimmy Blanks retired from the Department of Game & Inland Fisheriesin 2006 after serving over 28 years as a Law Enforcement Officer. Since then he has devoted his time to building flint lock rifles, hunting pouches, and powder horns, as well as dabbling with a small farm on the Staunton River and fishing on the Chesapeake Bay.