A Couple Coffee Slimlines

[stoneman]

A while back a couple IAP members agreed to cast me some Green Mountain Coffee beans for pen blanks. Previously I've posted a couple pens made from JayDevin casts. Here are two from castings I got from another IAP member, Modelmaker. The first is a slimline pencil made from roasted beans in a dark green resin (similar to GMCR logo green). The contrast is a little better than the photo shows. I had difficulty keeping the blank "clean", so it had some tiny flecks of "dust" in it, but learned a bit. The second is a slimline pen made from roasted beans in a light blue resin. I was able to keep this one quite a bit "cleaner". I have more blanks to work with and hope to imporve my skill at doing them. Folks I've showed the coffee pens to think they are pretty cool anyway. Any tips regarding making the coffee pens will be graciously accepted. Thanks for looking.

 

[jimofsanston]

bean blanks

Where can i get some of the coffee bean blanks?

 

[stoneman]

Where can i get some of the coffee bean blanks?

Jim,
I got my blanks from two IAP members, JayDevin and Modelmaker. I worked out a deal with each of them to cast my Green Mountain Coffee Beans into their resins (I live near the GMCR roasting plany in Vermont and specifically wanted GMCR beans). Two other IAP members that I know of have also offered coffee bean blanks for sale in the past, Elmostro and wolftat. You might try contacting any of these four to follow up and see what might be available.

 

[toolcrazy]

Very cool pens. I gotta cast me up some of those. Nice work.

 

[Rick_G]

Where can i get some of the coffee bean blanks?

William Woodwrite has them

http://www.penblanks.ca/index.php?target=products&product_id=3401