Ed McDonnell
Member
Another Cast Carved Core that I'm calling Emerald Waves (for what I hope are obvious reasons).
I had originally intended to use a black core for this pen, but the DOL and I had a disagreement on where the emerald waves were going to be placed and those black cores found their way to the circular file. As I was walking to the circular file, I noticed what I thought was a set of black cores in my "didn't quite work out" tray. I didn't remember why they ended up in the tray so I grabbed them and engraved them.
After spending a couple days making the pen (turn, engrave, inlay cold cast aluminum, turn, engrave, inlay emerald PR, turn, cast in clear PR), imagine my surprise as I polished the blanks and found out that my black core was actually....well, I'm not sure what color it is. It depends on the lighting and changes from a smokey grey to a dark translucent forest green. I think it looks pretty good...except when I think it doesn't. I'm not sure what to think about it, but I am sure that I think I would have been a lot happier if the core had been black like I intended.
All C&C welcome.
Ed
I had originally intended to use a black core for this pen, but the DOL and I had a disagreement on where the emerald waves were going to be placed and those black cores found their way to the circular file. As I was walking to the circular file, I noticed what I thought was a set of black cores in my "didn't quite work out" tray. I didn't remember why they ended up in the tray so I grabbed them and engraved them.
After spending a couple days making the pen (turn, engrave, inlay cold cast aluminum, turn, engrave, inlay emerald PR, turn, cast in clear PR), imagine my surprise as I polished the blanks and found out that my black core was actually....well, I'm not sure what color it is. It depends on the lighting and changes from a smokey grey to a dark translucent forest green. I think it looks pretty good...except when I think it doesn't. I'm not sure what to think about it, but I am sure that I think I would have been a lot happier if the core had been black like I intended.
All C&C welcome.
Ed