Golden Honeycomb

[rd_ab_penman]

Cast by API member healeydays (Mike Brouillette) and he is thinking of offering these blanks for sale soon.
I turned, polished and dressed up in a Black/Gold Sierra.

Les

 

[KBs Pensnmore]

Very unusual looking pen blank, well done. Sorry but couldn't find the thumbs up.
Kryn

 

[Akula]

Very cool looking, reminded me of the lite bright pen

 

[plantman]

Very unique pen Les !! Reminds me of a Golden Cobra skin in my collection. The top looks like the scales, and the sides look like the belly skin. I may have to dig that one out. Jim S

 

[CHARLES STOPCZYNSKI]

Sweet

Les,

You and Mike both outperformed yourselves.

Very creative.

Please get me on the mailing list.

Charlie

 

[Dan Hintz]

Now THAT is a very creative blank...

 

[walshjp17]

Over the top, Les & Mike. Absolutely beautiful. :good::good:

Now you'll have to figure out how to keep bears away from your honey.:biggrin:

 

[healeydays]

Les,

Thanks for posting that beautiful pen here on IAP. Les got the blank in a pen swap over on Woodbarter (if you haven't visited, well worth the stop for interesting wood)

I'm going to be offering these blanks probably in about 2 weeks in a number of different colors both translucent and pastel. A few members have been my testers around here (Karl_99, bean_counter, and vanngo5d) and what we have found is these blanks are definitely for the folks with a light touch but when done, they turn out beautiful.

Mike B

 

[johncrane]

Excellent pen and blank.

 

[wizkid1st]

I would definitely be interested in purchasing a few of these blanks when you have them available.

 

[leaycraft]

Beautiful- nicely done.

 

[hard hat]

very original and creative. good job!

 

[turncrazy43]

Mike, count me in on some of those blanks, I would be very interested.
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[healeydays]

Hi folks,

Thanks for the encouragement on these blanks. Give me a couple weeks and I will put some blanks up for sale.

Mike B

 

[Jim Smith]

Very sweet looking blank! Nice job!

Jim Smith

 

[Ulises Victoria]

Wow... is that a real honeycomb? How did you cast it without melting with the heat?

I would buy a couple of these for sure.

 

[Scotty]

Yeah, I would be interested in a couple also.

 

[George417]

Count me in also

 

[Dan Hintz]

Wow... is that a real honeycomb? How did you cast it without melting with the heat?

Looks like standard aluminum honeycomb... I have a bunch of it sitting around, kicking myself for not thinking of it before.

 

[Turned Around]

cool. i'd buy some

 

[Ulises Victoria]

Wow... is that a real honeycomb? How did you cast it without melting with the heat?

Looks like standard aluminum honeycomb... I have a bunch of it sitting around, kicking myself for not thinking of it before.

Hmmm I keep looking back at the very first photo and it definitely doesn't look like aluminum

 

[healeydays]

Wow... is that a real honeycomb? How did you cast it without melting with the heat?

I would buy a couple of these for sure.

This not real bee honeycomb or aluminum honeycomb. The problem with those 2 products is the bee honeycomb wouldn't even hold up to the heat of the resin making process let alone the turning and the aluminum has that metallic look and doesn't have that natural look.

This is a product is manufactured for the aerospace industry and for racing boat hulls. The nice thing is it does have that natural honey color.

 

[Dan Hintz]

That top photo sure makes it look like aluminum honeycomb, exactly like what I use in my laser engraver vector table.

 

[healeydays]

The 1st picture is showing when I sanded the blank down to expose the honeycomb so you are seeing sanding dust and abrasion from a rough sanding. The later pictures Les posted show the color of the honeycomb better.

You can see other pictures of the material in Vanngo5d's post of the green honeycomb pen he did at: http://www.penturners.org/forum/f13/honeycomb-green-yea-yea-huh-110658/

 

[longbeard]

That another sweet one Les.
Nice job on the blank Mike.
I'll be watching for those blanks when you have them for sale Mike.

 

[healeydays]

Folks have been asking when I would post some of my honeycomb blanks for sale. Here they are.

http://www.penturners.org/forum/f158/honeycomb-blanks-now-available-116116/#post1593537