Clear cactus with a shiny copper tube...

[MesquiteMan]

A friend of mine had some real thin copper sheets laying around so I talked him out of a small amount to play with. I glue the copper sheet around cigar pen tubes and then polished everything real well with a buffing wheel. I then drilled the blank bigger to accommodate the extra thickness and glued in the tubes with clear epoxy. You can see a few bubbles in the glue but otherwise it worked quite well. I coupled this with a bright copper kit and here are the results:

 

[LEAP]

SWEET! Really nice look.

 

[Gary Max]

Works for me---plus ain't no one else done that yet-[]

 

[Ligget]

That is FANTASTIC!![:0][]

 

[UKpenmaker]

Excellent work Curtis, it give the pen a real depth. I may have to get some of them Catus blanks soon.

 

[workinforwood]

Very nice. I was just looking at some sheets of copper at Menards a few days ago. The smallest sheet in the store was almost $30. I had to pass on that!

 

[TAld]

Hey who says tubes can't be pretty when they show through the blank []
Very nice looking pen!

 

[laurie sullivan]

i love the 3D look to this one.

laurie

 

[skiprat]

Hey, that's a cool idea and a great pen Curtis. I love seeing 'different' new ideas here.

If you do it again why don't you try using a bit of 7mm copper tube instead of sheet? I'm sure any plumber would swap a couple of meters of his boss's pipe for a slimline pen[]

 

[johncrane]

Looks great Curtis very impressive mate' a real eye catcher and unique pen.[]