RSidetrack
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So the story is this - Aquariums are another hobby of mine and I had done quite well for 3 years with no losses. Then my CO2 tank decided to purge one day when I was not around and suffocated all of my fish :befuddled: I had 7 survivors (all of my cory cat fish and one pleco). The rest didn't make it, which included two bala sharks, an angel fish, and a pleco. Anyway - out of nowhere on the forum I use for my aquarium hobby, I had received a private message from someone who I had never had conversations with before who read my post about my loss. He was offered to restock my tank with angelfish and bristle nose for free, just pay shipping! Unfortunately as luck would have it the package got sent on the run around and half of the fish he sent were lost - we both learned not to ship during holiday season. So I have four angel fish that had survived, two zebras and two ddas. He is offering me the same offer for after the holidays so that they can actually make it to my place on time!
I appreciated his generosity so much I had to do something in return. So below is my first label pen! There are slight imperfections, a seam, etc but it came out amazingly well! I used an acrylic sealer spray on the laser label, followed by superglue after label was applied to tube. I did one coat of medium CA, let it dry, then 2 coats of thick letting them dry in between. Then I cast it in the resin with some blue/green pearl ex. The slightest tint just so it would seem like the fish on the sticker were in water. It looks great and the pictures do not do it justice. As for the box - I made it out of red oak and red heart. I sucked at the felt for the pen unfortunately. The letters and images were cut on a friends laser engraver. The box was a design mentioned on another thread on here - and I will probably not be making any more of this style of box - I don't like felting it :wink:
The pen is a chrome magnetic vertex. Unfortunately it was the only kit I had left :-(. My new orders are taking their sweet time coming in and I wanted to get the pen out ASAP. It looks good - I just hope he likes the style of pen. He doesn't know its coming!
Anyway, without further ado:
I appreciated his generosity so much I had to do something in return. So below is my first label pen! There are slight imperfections, a seam, etc but it came out amazingly well! I used an acrylic sealer spray on the laser label, followed by superglue after label was applied to tube. I did one coat of medium CA, let it dry, then 2 coats of thick letting them dry in between. Then I cast it in the resin with some blue/green pearl ex. The slightest tint just so it would seem like the fish on the sticker were in water. It looks great and the pictures do not do it justice. As for the box - I made it out of red oak and red heart. I sucked at the felt for the pen unfortunately. The letters and images were cut on a friends laser engraver. The box was a design mentioned on another thread on here - and I will probably not be making any more of this style of box - I don't like felting it :wink:
The pen is a chrome magnetic vertex. Unfortunately it was the only kit I had left :-(. My new orders are taking their sweet time coming in and I wanted to get the pen out ASAP. It looks good - I just hope he likes the style of pen. He doesn't know its coming!
Anyway, without further ado:
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