Homemade Pseudomicarta...

[CameronPotter]

Well,

here is a new pen that I made tonight. The material is compressed cotton fibres that have been thoroughly saturated in resin.

Cam

 

[angboy]

Very nice. I like the colors! So is this a blank that you made then?

 

[chigdon]

Do you have pics of making the blank? Very cool and different.

 

[ed4copies]

Wow,

That's cool-bet it was fun keeping all those pieces straight!!
Or were they, pre-stiffened, then cast as one group?

Neat!

 

[alamocdc]

Interesting, Cameron. Looks pretty cool... lookout diamond wood! []

 

[gerryr]

This is really interesting and it looks good.

 

[pete00]

very cool
the pen is fighting with the background i think.

so come on...... tell us how you did it [][][]

 

[pete00]

oops forgot to ask....what the heck is a Pseudomicarta........[]

 

[ldimick]

Compressed cotton fbiers? Sounds like a stack of shirts glued together. []

 

[CameronPotter]

Phew! That is a lot of replies while I was asleep in bed (in am in Australia you see).

Anyway, I will post a how to in Build the Tips, Tricks, & FAQ Files and call it pseudomicarta.

Here it is: http://www.penturners.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13831

Thanks for the nice comments. []

Cam

 

[gerryr]

Since it is basically some shirt material that's been stuffed with resin, does this give a whole new meaning to the term "stuffed shirt?"[:0][]

 

[jdavis]

Super nice and the colors are awsome

 

[CameronPotter]

Originally posted by gerryr
<br />Since it is basically some shirt material that's been stuffed with resin, does this give a whole new meaning to the term "stuffed shirt?"[:0][]

Well actually, it was more like sheet material, so maybe it was "getting between the sheets"? [}]

 

[jwoodwright]

That's a shapley pen. Neat idea.

 

[CameronPotter]

Thanks.

I shaped it like that initially just to bring out some more of the pattern, but I actually quite like the shape too...

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Nice how these things happen.

Cam

 

[Johnathan]

Very interesting. Not more more to say, you've got me speachless, and that's saying a lot![|)]

 

[CameronPotter]

From our comparative post count (considering that we joined at almost the same time) I reckon I might have to agree Johnathan!![8D]