Horn Spoon Workshop - Thermopolis

The first time we had Tom teach this quickstart Horn Spoon Making, he could not understand why you would want to start with already polished horns - just cut and form and shape and scrape! Although he is not going to work this way in his own horn spoons - he decided it was a pretty nice way to get people started in the crafting of horn into spoon shapes, then scraped and polished for use of decoration.

This is the quickest way to learn the ancient art of making spoons from horn. This workshop provides all the tools and materials needed to make spoons from cow horn that have already been cleaned and prepped.

Heating the horn makes it very pliable; once formed, it is quickly quenched in cold water to harden in the shape you form. The same spoon can be heated and formed several times to obtain…