How to drill A Hole In A Conch Shell
How to Make a Conch Shell Horn
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you don't need a lot of tools to make a
Concord of course you need a conch
you'll need something to measure with
you'll need a hacksaw a drill a file and
sandpaper
first and foremost start with a good
conch shell if you get one that's been
commercially harvested for meat then
you're gonna have to plug a hole round
about the fourth spiral somewhere in
here you can do that with epoxy and that
you'll have to add to your list of
ingredients or your list of tools but
it's something you can also plug with
your finger if you don't feel like
messing with the epoxy once you've found
your conch make sure it's good and clean
that means wash it out well make sure
none of the rezident is left inside and
then soak it overnight preferably using
a 10% bleach solution rinse it off
really well dry it and now you're ready
to get started
now you're gonna want a hole about the
size of a dime stay ammeter which is
roughly 700 millimeters that's a little
bit more than 5/8 of an inch a little
bit less than 3/4 of an inch because
I've never done it before I bought a
small commercial shell cost about 4
dollars just to practice on as you can
see I've gotten the tip off and that
small shell took me just over five
minutes so on so here we go
taken quite a bit longer than I thought
long enough so the neighbor's cat has
gotten tired of waiting for me large
shell is much tougher in a small job
well removal of the spiral took closer
to a half an hour on this one not only
is it much bigger much thicker but I
kept losing the feeling in my hand that
I was using to brace the shell itself
and had to give my back a rest now and
then as they did with the the hole I'm
going to drill out my small shell first
for practice because I don't want to
make a mistake using the big one this
I'm using fairly small bit because you
don't want to clear out all of the air
obstruction right now it's pretty solid
in there and now I'm gonna use a little
medium grit sandpaper just to smooth the
lip a bit I'll tell you what my my file
did a good enough job this I really
don't have much left to do here okay
I've had to experiment with hole size a
little bit and I don't think I've quite
got it down but I'm getting pretty close
I'm no trumpeter so bear with me but
what do you think
not too bad for a first try
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