rodt
Member
Hi,
My name is Rod Thompson, and I live in semi poverty in Milton Keynes's in the English midlands having recently retired and I joined your association a month or two ago but had not introduced myself.
At some time in my life I it worked in both the Middle East and in Pakistan and for a period I had some surplus money. I enjoyed the standard "cigareets and whisky" but there weren't many wild, wild women plus the occasional racing catamaran (Prindles) and I still had enough money left over to indulge my other passion, I bought pens, fancy pens, expensive pens!! I loved them!!
I still have many of them but in many cases other people have loved them as much as me, and pinched them. Casting around for something to do in my retirement and perhaps to replenish my dwindling supplies of pens I had considered making some pens, but it was only when I bumped into this web site that I realized that it was possible to make pens at least as good as the ones that I spent so much on, and hopefully with some practice much, much better! Some of the pens that I have seen on this site are simply breathtaking and take the whole process into an art form, if I can even get somewhere near their standard I shall be so pleased and proud.
I am interested in trying all aspects, in particular segmentation, and have read some interesting features on the site. I would love to make some acrylic Blanks but do not really understand this technique. I seem to be able to find instructions for making a onetime mould (mold) but even then I do not quite understand whether you insert the tubes as part of the process or whether you just make the blank and then drill it, but since I wanted to decorate the tubes that wouldn't work. Can anybody advise?
Not being very good at typing I am dictating this using Windows speech recognition program and I am struggling a bit (it is learning quite a few swear words in the process) so if it is a bit stilted I apologise. This is also the first forum that I have ever joined so if I have the formalities wrong I apologise again
Regards
My name is Rod Thompson, and I live in semi poverty in Milton Keynes's in the English midlands having recently retired and I joined your association a month or two ago but had not introduced myself.
At some time in my life I it worked in both the Middle East and in Pakistan and for a period I had some surplus money. I enjoyed the standard "cigareets and whisky" but there weren't many wild, wild women plus the occasional racing catamaran (Prindles) and I still had enough money left over to indulge my other passion, I bought pens, fancy pens, expensive pens!! I loved them!!
I still have many of them but in many cases other people have loved them as much as me, and pinched them. Casting around for something to do in my retirement and perhaps to replenish my dwindling supplies of pens I had considered making some pens, but it was only when I bumped into this web site that I realized that it was possible to make pens at least as good as the ones that I spent so much on, and hopefully with some practice much, much better! Some of the pens that I have seen on this site are simply breathtaking and take the whole process into an art form, if I can even get somewhere near their standard I shall be so pleased and proud.
I am interested in trying all aspects, in particular segmentation, and have read some interesting features on the site. I would love to make some acrylic Blanks but do not really understand this technique. I seem to be able to find instructions for making a onetime mould (mold) but even then I do not quite understand whether you insert the tubes as part of the process or whether you just make the blank and then drill it, but since I wanted to decorate the tubes that wouldn't work. Can anybody advise?
Not being very good at typing I am dictating this using Windows speech recognition program and I am struggling a bit (it is learning quite a few swear words in the process) so if it is a bit stilted I apologise. This is also the first forum that I have ever joined so if I have the formalities wrong I apologise again
Regards
