New pen from my first casting

[Wce274]

Just got into casting my own pen blanks Kenv sent me some worthless wood that I made a hybrid pen blank out of and turned it last night I used AL resin and I think I did pretty good for my first try

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[KenV]

Very nice outcome from scraps and creativity!!!

 

[Jim15]

Excellent pen.

 

[mfarr79]

Man, that looks great! I'm pretty ignorant and still new. I'm slowly working on my skills thanks to the generosity of Mr KenV also. What is meant exactly by "worthless wood" and how does it fit into the picture?

 

[mark james]

That's one to be proud of. Kudos to both you and Ken's generosity.

 

[greenmtnguy]

Worthless wood is a term used for wood that is no good for pen making as it is. However, when cast with resin to fill in the voids, it becomes a worthy finished project. turning junk into gold as this pen shows. Nice job on the pen.

 

[mfarr79]

I see. So, the resin essentially serves to stabilize the wood? Kind of like what cactus juice does?

 

[Wce274]

I see. So, the resin essentially serves to stabilize the wood? Kind of like what cactus juice does?

The resin does not stabilize the wood just simply fills in the voids with resin and in Turn makes a nice pen blank casting is is to basically fill voids and stabilization is to make the wood hard and easier to turn and not break apart like you may have a soft piece of rotten wood you could dry it out and stabilize it and it would not be so brittle hope this helps



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[magpens]

That is totally excellent !!!! . Congratulations, Cody !!!

 

[mfarr79]

Gotcha! Thanks. That pen turned out great. I appreciate the info.

 

[Wce274]

Thanks for all the feedback guys


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[MRDucks2]

Very nice, Cody.


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[acts65]

looks great! did you need to stabilize the wood? did you use a pressure pot?

 

[Beautys_Beast]

That looks fantastic.

 

[Wce274]

looks great! did you need to stabilize the wood? did you use a pressure pot?

Just made sure the wood was 100% dry and I used a pressure pot to get the bubbles out of the casting resin did not stabilize it


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[SteveAxelrod]

Would you like to share what you used to color your resin and any tips on how you achieved the nice swirls in the small areas?

 

[DavidD]

Amazing!

 

[Wce274]

Would you like to share what you used to color your resin and any tips on how you achieved the nice swirls in the small areas?

I used alumilite clear with alumilite blue and some fine silver glitter and I just poured it in mixing it as I went didn't do anything special at all would pour a little more heavy in places alternating the resin colors hope that helps I use the slow 12 min working time so you have time to go slow and get a good mix


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[OZturner]

Beautiful Pen Cody,
Glorious Blank, Beautifully Cast and Finished.
Congratulations,
Brian.