Lots of glue (picture heavy)

[Skewer]

I really enjoyed making this pen and wanted to share some more pictures of the process and pen itself. I was trying out pinterest and ran across a bowl someone made from a book with open pages cast in resin. Sometime closer to the contest, I was at the used book store and walked by the comic book section, and thought I would try my hand at something similar. When I got home and started cutting up the comic book, my 5 year old son didn't understand and was very upset. "Dad you aren't supposed to do that with books!" I've not seen another pen like it, and I'm interested to know if anyone else has - it's hard to think of things that haven't been done before.

 

[Unclebuck21228]

Looks awesome! Great Idea.

 

[hcpens]

Talk about THINKING outside the box, VERY NICELY done.

 

[jttheclockman]

Great concept. I have seen this done with materials such as jeans and also wood layers but not magazines. That is a lot of glue. What glue did you use???

 

[vakmere]

Wild - Thor would want one of these. Nice work.

 

[Skewer]

Thanks, Guys.

Great concept. I have seen this done with materials such as jeans and also wood layers but not magazines. That is a lot of glue. What glue did you use???

Titebond Translucent wood glue between each page to form the 'bricks,' then clamped to dry. After it dried, it was stabilized in cactus juice. It swelled quite a bit in stabilization. For the bottom section, i just used CA to wrap it onto the tube, then cactus juice. As i got it down turned down to size, i soaked in thin CA - it was still very 'dry' and soaked it up.

 

[Charlie_W]

Very, very cool and creative! Well done!

The written word gives back and continues to write!

 

[BKind2Anmls]

Ingenious.

 

[MarcoDominici]

Very very superb!