Well Hurricane Matthew put a hurtin' on us down here in NC. Thankfully my place and my parent's place (where the shop is at) stayed high and dry but my parents lost power and did not regain it until late Wednesday. The house can run on generator power for about three weeks before the propane tank runs dry but the shop is not hooked up to the generator so we have been out of commission since Saturday!
Was finally able to get in the shop last night and turn out a few pens! Talk about therapeutic! I had cast the 2nd Amendment label blank a few weeks back and have been itching to put it on the lathe. Mated it with a flat black .30cal bolt action kit and I am really liking the results! This was my first successful label cast after many failed attempts so I am ready to try a few more now! This pen sold so fast too!
The second pen is part of the inventory I am building up for my first craft fair. It is a black and gold double dyed burl on a Berea gold and chrome Ultra Cigar Pen kit. 10 coats of thin CA sanded through 12,000 grit and hit with Novus 3 then Meguiar's Plast-X, and then Novus 1 polishing compounds.
Was finally able to get in the shop last night and turn out a few pens! Talk about therapeutic! I had cast the 2nd Amendment label blank a few weeks back and have been itching to put it on the lathe. Mated it with a flat black .30cal bolt action kit and I am really liking the results! This was my first successful label cast after many failed attempts so I am ready to try a few more now! This pen sold so fast too!
The second pen is part of the inventory I am building up for my first craft fair. It is a black and gold double dyed burl on a Berea gold and chrome Ultra Cigar Pen kit. 10 coats of thin CA sanded through 12,000 grit and hit with Novus 3 then Meguiar's Plast-X, and then Novus 1 polishing compounds.
