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[alamocdc]

Chrome in Prairie Rattler. If these sell, I'll have to start making my own I guess.

 

[EdwinSSIV]

Very nice!
I really like the snake skin pens...I guess I better go buy some and turn some.

 

[Skye]

Or you can save a bundle and make your own.

 

[Jerryconn]

Originally posted by Skye
<br />Or you can save a bundle and make your own.

Are there instructions on making these blanks?

 

[Skye]

http://www.thepenshop.net/snakeskin.pdf

Got most all my help learning this from Don (Virgil) here, as stated in the first paragraph. Give credit where credit is due. It's a step by step of how I do mine.

 

[Jerryconn]

Thanks Skye, I've really wanted to make some of these but the only place I have seen them is PSI and they are $pricey$

 

[JimGo]

Skye, that's a great article! Thanks for sharing it. Where did you find the rubber stoppers?

 

[Skye]

Thanks, I get my stoppers from a local tiny Ace hardware for 19 cents a piece. I also tried to get them at the local Super Mega Home Improvement shop, but they were about 50 cents a pop.

 

[EdwinSSIV]

Originally posted by Skye
<br />Or you can save a bundle and make your own.

I read that article a little while ago...it was great...very infomative!!! Thanks for writing it!
I don't know that I am ready to start making my own blanks quite yet! But I do want to...soon...very soon I will start the experiments!!!
Egor...hand me the snake skins!!!
Muhahahahaha[}]

 

[jdavis]

nice but I am not fond of snake

 

[JimGo]

Billy,
Sorry, I got so into Skye's article, I forgot to compliment you on the excellent job you did with this pen (which was the reason I had scrolled down in the first place!). I really like the shape of the barrel on this and the previous Sierra you posted. Kinda jazzes up the pen some without being too 'over the top' or out of place.

 

[chitswood]

Very neat looking!
How do they get that snakeskin design in the wood?

 

[Skye]

You dont. It's real snake skin, tanned with a process that doesnt (if you buy from the right place) react with the resin.

 

[alamocdc]

Thanks, all!

Skye, I'm a thinnin' he was a jokin'.

 

[knottyharry]

Super looking pen.
Harry

 

[Skye]

Ah, dont think he's made a pen and the skin was particularly 'woody' in color, so wasnt sure.