Fur sporran design pointers please - BEWARE pelt pictures inside

[AKScott]

I am trying to use Alaska stuff, local things, when making DIY kilt stuff.

These are a couple shots of the musk ox horn I have. It was "found" not "harvested", and pretty weathered.





When the horn is sliced off the end the marbled look like the one slab is what you get. My one very expensive horn would have been just barely big enough to make a marbled looking cantle, only the horn is so weathered the finished piece I can get out of the horn I have would be too small.

I think I can slice the horn in half lengthwise and get two cantles out of it, with sort of an artsy asymmetrical vibe, but the grain would be quite boring.

I have been watching for CITES exempt fossilized walrus tusk in big enough pieces for a formal sporran for years. Not a sporran with a pocket, just an ornamental panel with an ornamental cantle at the top. I saw one piece of fossil tusk big enough and they wanted more than my monthly truck payment for it.

So I am kind of stuck for cantle materials.

I did slice the tip off for a sgain handle, and sanded and sanded and sanded and it still has a bunch of cracks in the surface. I will probably sand it one more time before I try filling the cracks with a wax.