Natural Stone Sleeves

[the_PEN_man_10]

Hi All - I'm a newbie here. I'm interested in incorporating natural stone/mineral elements into pens - particular an outer sleeve of solid stone material. Do you have any experience with this and specific instruction on how best to do it? The material can be pretty brittle. Thanks!

 

[More4dan]

There is a material named TruStone that is stone dust 90% and resin dyed to look like many different types of stone. It looks, feels, and polishes like stone but can be worked with woodworking tools. Here is an example.

Danny


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[the_PEN_man_10]

Very interesting! Thanks More4dan.

 

[jttheclockman]

Good job getting here Randy.

I will just copy and paste my answer from the other post.


But for others this probably can be accomplished a couple different ways. You could choose to adhere stones to a tube via epoxy and then just turn and polish if that is possible due to the hardness of such stones. Or you can adhere thin layers of stones and then cast in a resin and it will be encased. Or you can carve out or route out some relief and inset stones and go this route. Maybe a few photos of examples would help.

 

[Ed McDonnell]

Here's a link to a discussion you might find of use.

http://www.penturners.org/forum/f19/turning-stone-134425/

It's not just the brittle nature of some stones. It's the hardness of the stone that presents a big challenge to the average pen maker using woodworking tools.

A search will turn up other discussions on IAP.

Ed