Sierras Sambar X 5

[Gary Max]

Fresh off the lathe---these 5 pens where going to make the trip to Vegas and Ken was going to engrave them for me. That did not work out. The Sambar has way to much color to try engraving. The antler's color puts me in mind of old mammoth ivory.

 

[ed4copies]

Gary,

I know little or nothing about antler.

Why would the color preclude engraving??

 

[guts]

me too?

 

[Gary Max]

I wanted to get some of Kens very detailed engraving. If they all looked like the last one---real white---that's the route I would of went. But with the darker patina I feel it would work against the engraving. I will give Ken a shout and get his input---heck you never know I might be wrong---LOL

 

[DCBluesman]

Gary - Ken can engrave ANYTHING and Gisele (Ken's wife) can make it work with her colorfill magic.

 

[laserturner]

Hi Gary,
You're right. The contrast when engraving antler is great if the antler is white or almost white however is doesn't show up all that well in the darker stuff. 2 of those 5 would work well but the others would be questionable. Colorfilling is also not the way to go with antler.
We got lucky here with Bob Altig's Geronimo pen but as you can see, the contrast color would blend a bit too much with the base color of 3 of the pens you posted.

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[wdcav1952]

Nice pens, Gary. Send him the two light ones.

No surprise, great laser work, Ken.

 

[TellicoTurning]

Gary,
Depending on how complicated your engraving is...just initials or a name, I would think you probably could have the engraving blackened to stand out... would work well with the decorative black already in the pen... JMO

 

[Penmonkey]

Nice pens I like them. They would be nice engraved.

 

[NavyDiver]

Nice batch of pens - engraved or not.

 

[TBone]

great looking pens, doubt all of them would look good engraved if you want them alike. The bottom one would look real good engraved

 

[bob393]

Originally posted by NavyDiver
<br />Nice batch of pens - engraved or not.

I second that!