Kyo62045

Looks like it's about that time again.

Can't pin the OG post (thanks, fb 🙄), so here's yet ANOTHER share.

The graph paper I used was 4 squares per inch.

Hey all. Here's that horn pattern I mentioned. Thanks so much for your patience. Steps are also in the description of relevant pics.

Kyo62045's Ram Horns!

What you'll need:

- craft foam
- maybe a ruler?
- pencil or pen
- your preferred cutting implement(s)
- craft glue gun (a full size glue gun is way too big for the fiddly bits)
- SO MUCH HOT GLUE
- 14 or 16 gauge wire (hit up a hardware store for this)
- wire cutters
- cardboard
- plastic hairband
- electrical tape
- paint (I used crap dollar store paint. If you do too, seal it. It might crack)

Steps:

1. Print and cut out the pattern, enlarging or shrinking it to your heart's content. I shrunk my personal set to 80%, and it worked out pretty ace.

2. Lay out on your foam. The curved lines make it a little easier to line up your pieces for a good twist in your completed horns. So either trace them lightly on your foam, or don't, and make the style your own. If you're using the curved line, make sure you cut out mirrored pieces for each side. The pattern itself is for a left horn.

3. Cut out your foam, cursing the craft foam gods for having to cut out so many goddamn rectangles.

4. Hot glue edges together to form rings, keeping the glue on the outside as clean as possible, so you don't have issues fitting the rings on each other. If it's messy, use your glue gun's tip to re-melt the glue a bit, and smear it around as flat as possible.

5. Cut 2 lengths of wire about 2' to 2-1/2', so you have a bunch left to use for mounting.

6. Fill piece #2 with hot glue, ignoring that there's no piece #1 (because I forgot to re-number my pieces at any point while making two sets of horns. smrt), and insert one end of a wire into it along the seam. Working on both horns at the same time is better, because you can tweak symmetry as you go.

7. Add piece #3 by sliding it down the wire and onto piece #2, lining up seams. If you're using the curved lines, the pieces are numbered in a "this side up" kinda way. Except for piece #17. Pointy side down.

8. Hot glue INSIDE the ring, along the edge where both pieces meet.

Hot glue the wire to the seam for stability. I put a bunch of glue under the wire, and wiggled it around until the wire was covered.

Repeat this step for all those goddamn pieces until you get to the end.

9. Try not to burn yourself. Burn yourself a lot.

10. Cut a piece of cardboard that fits against the edge of piece #16. This'll help with stability so your horns don't smoosh. Might take a bit of trial and error. I totally forgot to make a pattern piece for this step, oops.

11. Glue the cardboard piece to the edge of piece #16, inside piece #17. You might need to bend the wire a little creatively to get the cardboard to sit flush. Again, trial and hopefully no errors.

12. Use the wire that's left to attach your horns to a hairband. Run the wire along the top of the hairband once you've figured out how you want them to sit, bending when necessary. [no pics]

13. TIGHTLY electrical tape the ever living s**t out of the area the wire sits. Trim excess wire. [no pics]

14. Hot glue where horns meet hairband. [no pics]

15. Paint your horns however you want.

Any questions, or for higher res patterns, feel free to message me.

Hope this helps out with some spooky times :)