Ram's horns

A real ram's horns from a museum scan, curling back to the ears from clips that zip-tie to any headband.

Horn across its curl: 118 mm
Size of the real horn: 62%
Print time: 3.4 h on 2 plates
Filament: 97.2 g

Colourway

Gold main
Black second
Cocoa brown accent

About the design

These are a real ram's horns. Their shape, growth ridges and slight differences between left and right come from a 3D scan of a ram's skull in the collection of the Polish Academy of Sciences, scaled to 62 %. Each horn sits on a black clip whose groove takes a plain 10 mm headband, held by two zip ties, and glues onto a keyed spigot, so there is no magnet to pull out and no dowel to snap. Worn, the horns rise from the band and curl back and down towards the ears, clear of the head by about 8 mm.

What you can change

Size, as a share of the real horn
Where on the band the horns sit, and their turn
Headband width, thickness and curve
Spigot size, key and glue clearance
Zip-tie size

Specifications

Horn across its curl: 118 mm
Size of the real horn: 62%
Clearance from the head, worn: 7.6 mm
Headband: 10 mm wide, up to 4 mm thick
Zip ties: two per horn, 3.6 mm wide, such as Panduit PLT1.5I-C
Glue: medium CA on the spigot

Printing

Plates, print hours and filament grams for each Bambu Studio project
Project	Plates	Hours	Grams
Ram's horns, PLA Basic	2	3.4	97.2
Total	2	3.4	97.2

Times and weights come from the Bambu Studio 02.08.02.61 slice at 0.20 mm layers. Each figure is rounded on its own.

In the room

Credits and licence

The horns are the sheaths of "Ovis aries - 171415, Zoological collection of the Mammal Research Institute, PAS", a 3D scan of a real ram's skull by the Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences (Open Forest Data, https://doi.org/10.48370/OFD/YSDP5F), licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes: the two horn sheaths are taken from the skull, closed at the base, scaled to 62 %, turned onto a headband, cut flat at the root and given a glue socket.