BigShed
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My first granddaughter is getting married Sunday week, 30th March, and I decide that with my new found interest in pen turning I would make a special set for the bride and groom to sign their certificate.
I didn't know what sort of journey I had embarked on!
Having decided on 2 tone Chrome Sierras and a black an white theme, the search was on for a matching "opposite" set of white and black blanks (if that makes sense!).
Not too much trouble finding a suitable black acrylic blank with white lines, but finding a similar white blank with black lines proved a bit of a headache.
Purchased a silvery opal blank at Carbatec, which was quite nice on its own but not in combination with the black.
Having put out some questions both on this forum and on the Oz forum, I finally found a suitable blank on CSUSA. These duly arrived last Monday, I bought 3 white as well as 3 blacks. Together with some other blanks I had bought, that made a total of 12 blanks purchased for a set of 2 pens (the things you do for your granddaughter, SWMBO was ready to have me certified).
Turned 2 each of the white and the black, as well as some backups for the engraver to practice on.
Delivered these to the engraver on Wednesday for pickup yesterday, Thursday. When I arrived at 3pm yesterday he had neither done a practice one, nor done the proper ones.
Blood pressure on the rise!
Anyway, he was very obliging and did 2 different depth laser engravings on the practice one and put some gold and some silver paste stuff in the engraving to make ir show up.
Having decided to go for the deeper of the 2 and selecting the silver highlighting, he did the engraving on the good ones, exactly where I had marked them with a permanent marker.
I am very happy with the end result, but won't add up the total cost of these 2 pens!
I didn't know what sort of journey I had embarked on!
Having decided on 2 tone Chrome Sierras and a black an white theme, the search was on for a matching "opposite" set of white and black blanks (if that makes sense!).
Not too much trouble finding a suitable black acrylic blank with white lines, but finding a similar white blank with black lines proved a bit of a headache.
Purchased a silvery opal blank at Carbatec, which was quite nice on its own but not in combination with the black.
Having put out some questions both on this forum and on the Oz forum, I finally found a suitable blank on CSUSA. These duly arrived last Monday, I bought 3 white as well as 3 blacks. Together with some other blanks I had bought, that made a total of 12 blanks purchased for a set of 2 pens (the things you do for your granddaughter, SWMBO was ready to have me certified).
Turned 2 each of the white and the black, as well as some backups for the engraver to practice on.
Delivered these to the engraver on Wednesday for pickup yesterday, Thursday. When I arrived at 3pm yesterday he had neither done a practice one, nor done the proper ones.
Blood pressure on the rise!
Anyway, he was very obliging and did 2 different depth laser engravings on the practice one and put some gold and some silver paste stuff in the engraving to make ir show up.
Having decided to go for the deeper of the 2 and selecting the silver highlighting, he did the engraving on the good ones, exactly where I had marked them with a permanent marker.
I am very happy with the end result, but won't add up the total cost of these 2 pens!
