Ode to a Vacumatic
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wdcav1952
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Holy Toledo, Bruce, are your eyes permanently crossed?!?!?
That is a clever segmentation. Great work!!
That is a clever segmentation. Great work!!
desertyellow
Member
Excellent work
papaturner
Member
That is just way too cool................Excellent job.
OKLAHOMAN
Member
Bruce, WOW
BTW I tried to count the segments but ran out of fingers.
BTW I tried to count the segments but ran out of fingers.
VisExp
Member
Bruce, that looks beautiful! I still aspire to building some kitless pens and seeing work like this really motivates me.
dntrost
Member
I have to just agree with the rest that is really something...Great job
cowjelly
Member
That is very nice! Well worth the effort..
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Keith
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thewishman
Member
Great job! The fittings are nicely subdued to let the segmenting draw the eye. Top shelf!
JayDevin
Member
wow! nice work!
toolcrazy
Member
very cool
gerryr
Member
Really nice work Bruce.
Ligget
Member
Awesome pen Bruce, the amount of work involved in those barrels is amazing!
workinforwood
Member
No doubt a major amount of Labour. The home brew Kit and clip look great, but I'm off on a limb by myself in that I don't like the blank. Too busy, perhaps it's all the black so close together. sorry.
bitshird
Member
Nice Job Bruce, very retro looking pen, nice work on the hardware.
Firefyter-emt
Member
Wow, that is some serious work! Did you use the translucent amber PR so the blank was see thru like the original?
BTW, I have the same pen and color as the above Parker, but with out the tassie jewel. They are even more stunning than that photo shows.
BTW, I have the same pen and color as the above Parker, but with out the tassie jewel. They are even more stunning than that photo shows.
rherrell
Member
VERY cool Bruce Excellent job!:highfive:
Excellent job!:highfive:
Thanks - Mine is not translucent. Was just trying to get a similar effect. Also has a center core to keep it together so even if the amber was see thru the pen would not be. Perhaps in a different version, but I really need a better way to make these. This one fought me all the way.
Firefyter-emt
Member
What if you were able to level some plate glass and pour a thin swirled PR onto that and allow it to make a thin sheet? Maybe a few layers of masking tape to make a "dam" to keep the thickness?
Then a lightly tinted amber in the same method for the inserts. This way you might be able to cut it into thin strips, drill the holes in the sheet and then cut them apart and build it on a brass tube.
I like the pre-drill idea to keep the hole straight compared to the lines of the blank.
Make a wood board with four t-nuts in each corner, install pan head 1/4-20 bolts and place the glass ontop of that. This will allow you to adjust each corner to level. Just thinking here.
Then a lightly tinted amber in the same method for the inserts. This way you might be able to cut it into thin strips, drill the holes in the sheet and then cut them apart and build it on a brass tube.
I like the pre-drill idea to keep the hole straight compared to the lines of the blank.
Make a wood board with four t-nuts in each corner, install pan head 1/4-20 bolts and place the glass ontop of that. This will allow you to adjust each corner to level. Just thinking here.
Even with that setup which is a good idea, I think it would be really difficult to make a uniform thickness sheet. This one was sliced from a turned cylinder and randomly oriented to get a similar effect to the Parker. If I cast a sheet, I think I would want to pass it through a thickness sander to make the pieces uniform, but I don't have one. The other idea is to make the colored section, turn it round, and with a thin parting tool on the metal lathe make grooves that can be filled with a second cast of black PR. The trick with that one is perhaps to make multiple pours at angles of the colored section to lose the grain effect.
PR_Princess
Member
Bruce, I like it!!!
A Lot!!!:worship:
That offset shimmer effect as always drawn me to that pen.
I hate to say it though, but I think that the pattern it is not busy enough! Now, when did you say you were going to have those blanks available for sale??:biggrin::tongue:
Hmm... If you do what Lee is suggesting.... Do you think that you can make a blank patterned off of what (I think) they used to call a "snake skin" pen? I think something like that paired with the snake clip you made would be dynamite!
A Lot!!!:worship:
That offset shimmer effect as always drawn me to that pen.
I hate to say it though, but I think that the pattern it is not busy enough! Now, when did you say you were going to have those blanks available for sale??:biggrin::tongue:
Hmm... If you do what Lee is suggesting.... Do you think that you can make a blank patterned off of what (I think) they used to call a "snake skin" pen? I think something like that paired with the snake clip you made would be dynamite!
Why thank you Princess. Don't think these will ever be for sale, but I could be talked into a trade for a kringle.
Hi Bruce,
What a lovable pen !!!
Thanks for reviving it and posting a link to it.
Perhaps my post here will result in that thread becoming active again and result in some of that Vacumatic material breaking its head through the surface. . Hope so.
I tried to make a blank like that but it was a failure.
Yours is absolutely beautiful !!!
What a lovable pen !!!
Thanks for reviving it and posting a link to it.
Perhaps my post here will result in that thread becoming active again and result in some of that Vacumatic material breaking its head through the surface. . Hope so.
I tried to make a blank like that but it was a failure.
Yours is absolutely beautiful !!!
Curly
Member
Might have been 10 years ago but you are still ahead of the curve.
stuckinohio
Member
Good revival. I hadn't seen this before. Very cool!