Polymer Apollo Roller.

[Ruby pen turning]

My wife is still having fun making flowers and looking for things to plaster them on and I have good places for her to plaster them. I had an Apollo with a fake Turquoise plastic on it that has not sold in over a year. I turned the fake stuff off and gave her the tubes and this is the result covered with many coats of CA (she doesn`t like to make the clay the match the bushing sizes) The speck looking things is glitter. Thanks for looking. Comments bad or good or even tips welcome.

 

[ohiococonut]

WOW! My wife and I are both impressed. She just wishes she knew how to do this.

 

[maxman400]

Looks Great, You make a good team.

 

[ToddMR]

Looking good to me too. Nicely done!

 

[MarkD]

Wow, what an awesome looking pen!

 

[Dorno]

Wow Very nice job. I bet you have no trouble selling that pen now. I agree with the others there could be a little side line business there with the polymer tubes decorated ? any thoughts of that ?

Cheers Ian

 

[wizard]

Beautiful pen....great collaboration!

 

[snyiper]

That is simply stunning...I also see a market for tubes. That is simply awesome we need a tutorial on that as well!!!

 

[Ruby pen turning]

Thanks for the comments everyone. She is really enjoying making flowers and butterflies from clay. We have a small nursery in central Louisiana that we close around the beginning of summer because well........ it gets to dang hot and people stop coming in. So she tried candles and soaps and liked it but could not give the stuff away for some reason. So this is her next hobby/ show items along with my pens.
As for making pen tubes and selling them, she needs to get better at putting everything on tubes at the proper thickness and also without distorting what she puts on the tubes.
As for tutorials there are tons on the web, that is where she started. There are lots of step be step instructions out there on how to make canes. Then you just wrap the tube with a thin background color and apply what you have made in thin slices from the canes.

 

[G1Pens]

Awesome. bet it sells now !

 

[dtswebb]

A very beautiful pen that you both should be proud of.

Matthew

 

[RSidetrack]

I am not sure if its possible but can you cast resin over it to save the ca steps?

 

[Ruby pen turning]

I am not sure if its possible but can you cast resin over it to save the ca steps?

I don`t know if you could or not. I don`t see why you couldn`t apply the clay even with the bushings, bake and cast. MAybe someone else would know.

 

[Drstrangefart]

My wife would cut you for that pen......

 

[DRAT]

What a great looking pen!

I love it. Great job! Great teamwork!!

Where did you find that pen kit with the gold end pieces?

DrAT

 

[Coysquibbly]

Very Beautiful. Stunning indeed.

Kevin

 

[Ruby pen turning]

it is an Apollo kit from PSI. http://www.pennstateind.com/store/apollo-elite-pen-kits.html

 

[seamus7227]

That is absolutely gorgeous! Nice work by the both of ya!

 

[broitblat]

Nice looking blank, and I think the Apollo makes an exceptionally good match for it.

-Barry

 

[srf1114]

I 2 think it is is beautiful pen. I just have one tiny little critique, I wouldn't have positioned the clip over the butterfly on the cap. Could you have moved that so that it was over more of the background flowers instead of the eye catching Butterfly?

 

[Ruby pen turning]

Thanks again everyone. My wife really is liking the polymer clay stuff and I like putting something different on pens.
I think the clip can be started in a different thread position so it can be moved.