My first attempt with captive rings

[vb-matt-36]

Hi everyone, I have just finished these two pens with captive rings for a customer, this is my first attempt so go easy on me, sorry for the picture quality as I only have a camera phone, all comments are welcome either good or bad, cheers!!!

 

[OLDMAN5050]

Looks good. I am always afraid the rings will be to easy to break

 

[Drstrangefart]

Looks good. I am always afraid the rings will be to easy to break

That was my very first thought, but either way, COOOOOOOOOL!!!! I like that. I've been wanting to give it a shot on a pen, just haven't had the nerve needed.

 

[Scott.tudhope]

That is way cool!

 

[vb-matt-36]

Thanks for the positive feed back everyone, the ring itself is suprisingly strong but the difficult part was putting on the ca finish, I had to keep the ring moving in between coats or it would stick to the pen, cheers!!!

 

[bobjackson]

They look great. Hard to write with?

 

[wiset1]

Now that's a pretty cool concept!

 

[seamus7227]

Extremely well done! thanks for sharing!

 

[vb-matt-36]

They look great. Hard to write with?

That was my concern as I couldn't put the captive ring on the upper part of the pen because the ring would prevent the clip from sitting correctly, but as it is situated on the upper part of the bottom piece it just clears the fingers so as to not to get in the way when writing, cheers.:biggrin:

 

[vb-matt-36]

Looks good. I am always afraid the rings will be to easy to break

That was my very first thought, but either way, COOOOOOOOOL!!!! I like that. I've been wanting to give it a shot on a pen, just haven't had the nerve needed.

My advise would be to practice on some scrap wood first, give it a try!!

 

[vb-matt-36]

Extremely well done! thanks for sharing!

Thankyou, it is always a pleasure to hear kind kind words such as your own:wink:

 

[boxerman]

2 very cool looking pens.

 

[RustySplinters]

Howd you finish the pen and rings?

 

[vb-matt-36]

Howd you finish the pen and rings?

I used ca for the finish which I can say wasn't easy, and I also used ca for the ring before I parted it off, cheers!

 

[vb-matt-36]

2 very cool looking pens.

thankyou Craig:biggrin:

 

[Sheumais]

Amazing. I've done quite a few captive rings on goblets, but never had the nerve to do any on pens.

Look on the bright side... even if the rings break, the pens are amazing enough that they'd still look awesome sans rings.

 

[Drstrangefart]

I suddenly find myself wondering how it would work on an acrylic or PR.....

 

[JimB]

Those are amazing. Did you use a captive ring tool or something else?

 

[vb-matt-36]

Those are amazing. Did you use a captive ring tool or something else?

I made up a little tool with a file and it worked fine, cheers.

 

[kovalcik]

Great looking pens! I love captured rings, but never thought of putting one on a pen.

I hope you realize that I (and probably others) am going to shamelessly steal this idea.

Could you go into some more detail on how you did not CA finish? What has me stumped is how you finish the inside of the ring and how do you keep the ring from sticking?