Kaspar
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Saturday's labors have yielded the following:
My first attempt at segmented blanks and scalloping. It used a Lotus pen kit, with amboyna burl wood, alternate ivory accents, emerald web trustone, and turquoise trustone. I was very disappointed in the turquoise. It should have a lot of black streaking in it. There was almost none, once I turned it down. The cap, sadly, will have to wait until I can secure some more of the alternative ivory that I used for accenting.
Things I learned:
The blank must be square and true on every side.
I can successfully drill right down the center of a segmented blank. Slow and steady is best.
Accents bands should contrast with the color of the material they are accenting. The ivory works fine with the Emerald Web, lousy with the Turquoise.
A combination of Grizzly Supergold Plus with Berea Tripled Distilled Thin will cement anything quickly and permanently, metal included, though I didn't learn that with this pen.
I must work toward greater precision to completely eliminate glue lines. Must get this.
But not a bad first effort, I think.
I loved the Lotus when I first saw it, and I still love it. However, now that I've seen one in person, the Imperial is just as good.
My first attempt at segmented blanks and scalloping. It used a Lotus pen kit, with amboyna burl wood, alternate ivory accents, emerald web trustone, and turquoise trustone. I was very disappointed in the turquoise. It should have a lot of black streaking in it. There was almost none, once I turned it down. The cap, sadly, will have to wait until I can secure some more of the alternative ivory that I used for accenting.
Things I learned:
The blank must be square and true on every side.
I can successfully drill right down the center of a segmented blank. Slow and steady is best.
Accents bands should contrast with the color of the material they are accenting. The ivory works fine with the Emerald Web, lousy with the Turquoise.
A combination of Grizzly Supergold Plus with Berea Tripled Distilled Thin will cement anything quickly and permanently, metal included, though I didn't learn that with this pen.
I must work toward greater precision to completely eliminate glue lines. Must get this.
But not a bad first effort, I think.
I loved the Lotus when I first saw it, and I still love it. However, now that I've seen one in person, the Imperial is just as good.