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Originally posted by ctEaglesc
I dunno what do you think it is?

I think it's aluminum that's been powder coated with a hammered brass finish, then hand engraved with a Dremel or Foredom.

I also think it's gonna make a beautiful pen. WTG Eagle!

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Originally posted by txbob
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Originally posted by ctEaglesc
I dunno what do you think it is?

I think it's aluminum that's been powder coated with a hammered brass finish, then hand engraved with a Dremel or Foredom.

I also think it's gonna make a beautiful pen. WTG Eagle!

txbob
Where'd you gert the idea there was any aluminum?
Those are the bushings, it's still on the mandrel.
 

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Well, it looks like Eastwood's hammered brass power coat, and that has to go on metal. The engraved lines are a silver color, so it's not brass or copper. Of the common metals that are left, aluminum is the lightest, cheapest, and easiest to turn, and it's fairly easy to engrave.

Putting it on a mandrel looks like a good way to hold it while engraving it. I'll have to steal that idea from you. Thanks Eagle.

txbob

Originally posted by ctEaglesc
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Originally posted by txbob
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Originally posted by ctEaglesc
I dunno what do you think it is?

I think it's aluminum that's been powder coated with a hammered brass finish, then hand engraved with a Dremel or Foredom.

I also think it's gonna make a beautiful pen. WTG Eagle!

txbob
Where'd you gert the idea there was any aluminum?
Those are the bushings, it's still on the mandrel.
 

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Originally posted by txbob
<br />Well, it looks like Eastwood's hammered brass power coat,
and that has to go on metal.
No not an Eastwood product but it is a PC. I can put it on materials other than metal.




The engraved lines are a silver color,so it's not brass or copper.
Check your monitors color, it is copper




Of the common metals that are left, aluminum is the lightest, cheapest, and easiest to turn, and it's fairly easy to engrave.

The rest is moot, I already told you is was copper, but it is not engraved

Putting it on a mandrel looks like a good way to hold it while engraving it. I'll have to steal that idea from you.

Knock your socks off, when I did my "browning deer head pen", that's how I held it, but this is plexiglass and copper.It started out as a solid blank of plexigass and cut with copper laminations glued in[:D]


Thanks Eagle.

txbob

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Originally posted by ctEaglesc
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Originally posted by txbob
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Originally posted by ctEaglesc
I dunno what do you think it is?

I think it's aluminum that's been powder coated with a hammered brass finish, then hand engraved with a Dremel or Foredom.

I also think it's gonna make a beautiful pen. WTG Eagle!

txbob
Where'd you gert the idea there was any aluminum?
Those are the bushings, it's still on the mandrel.
 

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Looks quite good to me Eagle, certianly beyond my imagination. You might try a different color metal, such as the aforementioned aluminum, for the inlay (or vise-versa)
 
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