Laurie-
I think for your first attempt it is great!
It may not be to your liking and that is a good thing because a truecraftsman is never satisfied.What impresses me most is that you did not resort to a computerized service to add an additional detail that makes this pen a further extension of your creative abilities.
Scrimshaw has been practiced for centuries by sailors who used the art to pass the time while at sea and the examples that remain today are amazing.
The detail they achieved is remarkable when you realize they worked with sail needles and "sanded/ polished" the ivory they scrimshanded with salt embedded canvas.
I hope you pursue this technique combining this art form to another level and continue to prove that to get fine detail in our work, one does not have to resort to the efforts of someone with a computer and an expensive machine.
You have proven that all it takes is an idea and the courage to try.
Jim 15-
If a sailor with a minimal education and crude tools could turn out the work they did, I'm sure you could als
nce a concept or idea is tried and completed the level of results improves with every attempt. Wishing doesn't accomplish that.
Before you made your first pen did you"wish" you could make one and miraculously you attained the skills?
Or did you take the route the rest of us did.
I for one tried to make a pen, the rest of them only got better.
"Argue your limitations and they will be yours", Richard Bach.
Great Job Laurie.
I had this on my list to do for a while, You beat me to it.
Looking to see the next one.
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One thng about the picture has me puzzled.
I see that you are still "proud" of the bushings.Is this a "test" or do you plan to just"bevel back" to the required measuremnts?
