I've been playing with rocks again.

[OKLAHOMAN]

Alabaster rocks that is. This is an other Italian alabaster called raspberry, no need to paint tubes or blank. Platinum Baron. All comments yea and nay welcome.

 

[txbatons]

I vote Yea! Nice looking pen.

 

[rhahnfl]

Very nice... is it more like truestone or acrylic? Either way it looks very nice.

 

[LEAP]

Another very big yea! nicely done.

 

[Arthritis]

Yea!! Nice pen! What kind of stuff is it? Easy or not so easy to turn?

 

[OKLAHOMAN]

Chris, Its not like either. It is real stone but turns well no shavings just powder,its fragil so you must be careful when assembly.

Originally posted by rhahnfl
<br />Very nice... is it more like truestone or acrylic? Either way it looks very nice.

 

[GaryMGg]

If we had a two-thumbs up, I'd use it. Nice. [8D]

 

[Gary Max]

Lookin good Roy

 

[gerryr]

No need for paint?? Are you saying this is the natural color?[:0]

Great looking pen.

 

[OKLAHOMAN]

Yep!!!![^]

Originally posted by gerryr
<br />No need for paint?? Are you saying this is the natural color?[:0]

Great looking pen.

 

[randbcrafts]

That turned out much better than my first one with that material. Good job.

 

[OKLAHOMAN]

Richard this is one of the ones I e-mailed you about. It was broken in half and cracked lenthwise, but I was able to save it.

Originally posted by randbcrafts
<br />That turned out much better than my first one with that material. Good job.

 

[mick]

Roy I've been admiring your Alabaster pens since you started posting them. It's a fantastic looking material. If you don't mind my asking, where do you get the Alabaster?

 

[OKLAHOMAN]

Mike here is the link to our classified. Richard has tru-stone and alabaster.
http://www.penturners.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=26249

 

[randbcrafts]

Roy, Looks like you did a good job saving it. I just turned one of the Italian Bardiglio blanks. CA finish worked very well for me. Did you put any kind of finish on this one?

 

[OKLAHOMAN]

Thanks Richard, I'm not putting a CA finish on these as I really don't want a plastic look. I'm more or less trying to give these a natural stone look and feel, After wet sanding with MM Pads, I use brasso,than Mequires Plastic polish and finish with TSW. This gives it a nice soft sheen.

Originally posted by randbcrafts
<br />Roy, Looks like you did a good job saving it. I just turned one of the Italian Bardiglio blanks. CA finish worked very well for me. Did you put any kind of finish on this one?

 

[neon007]

Great work as always.