Pressure Cast Wormy Box Elder Burl Carbera

[karlkuehn]

Finally got back on the lathe!

Turned my first pen from the blanks I made the other night with my new HF pressure/vac pot setup.

The kit is a black chrome Carbera, the resin is my little home-brew using clear casting resin with 5 colors of micro-milled mica pearl pigments.

Here's the wood prior to casting, after casting, and the first finished pen, which is from the piece of wood on the far right in the first picture:

 

[LouisQC]

Congrats Karl, that's a superb save of the blanks. Gorgeous pen!

 

[Rmartin]

That's incredible! The before and after pics really tell the story.

Rmartin

 

[neon007]

Great job on the casting. I have done a few like that. They turned out great as did yours.

 

[txbatons]

Very nice. I've got to crack open my new HF pot and get going on this!

 

[UKpenmaker]

Nice work Karl.[]
I too need to get my pot sorted out after seeing these.

 

[Fred]

Great save and excellent pen from the salvaged wood. See, they really ain't no such thing as a busted blank after all!

Almost forgot to ask ya, where did you get the micro-milled mica pearl pigments that you used and what resin? []

 

[karlkuehn]

Strangely enough, I got the pearl powders from Micheals (or A.C. Moore, I get them mixed up they're both in the same shopping center here...). That's where I got the casting resin, too (Castin' Craft clear PR).

I've got some Alumilite waterclear resin sitting here, but I wanted to use up the cheapie stuff I got for the learning curve.

Here's a link to the pearl powder stuff that I bought. You can usually find a good sale, so it's cheap:

http://www.michaels.com/art/online/displayProductPage?productNum=pc0006

 

[johncrane]

Awesome job great casting Karl.[]